OK, I'm stupid. From what I gather, IBM positions this for "new work" only. And from reading, it is basically to get people to not invest in a UNIX or NT solutions, but to use this (my opinion) "crippled" version of z/OS instead. Why would I do that? If I wanted to stay with the System z processor, I would strongly look at Linux under z/VM. I will grant that z/OS has some real strengths over Linux. But I just don't see the reason. Again, from my reading, IBM does not expect people to really run any "legacy" work on a zNALC system. Yes, I know about the code that allows COBOL programs to legally run under z/OS.e and I would guess that it would still work on a zNALC system. But I'm just bumfuzzled about this. I can understand running Websphere on my normal z/OS system. But if I'm going to segregate the Websphere workload onto a zNALC system, why not just go whole hog and use Linux (on System z or even some other hardware)?
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