John McKown said; > > Yep. Time to migrate to some variant of Linux, I guess. It can run on > almost anything out there. It is not as mature as z/OS (what is?), but > it is useful for a lot of things. Why run WAS on z/OS when you can run > basically the same thing on z/Linux or even Linux/Intel? Why run WAS > when you can run JBOSS? Of course, I cannot compare them because I don't > use either. I just know that they are both Java based "application > servers".
You've just hit on the real problem in getting anything new onto z/OS in preference to another platform. You really CAN run these things pretty much anywhere you want and while there may be scalability or quality of service differences here and there, you can always apply the old adage and "hit it with a bigger hammer". It turns out that a lot of what we mainframers have always thought of as firm requirements are actually pretty fungible when there are $$ attached. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
