R.S. wrote:
David Crayford wrote:
[...]
SAP Business Suite is the same, no longer being ported to z/OS. It
seems that z/Linux is becoming a very strategic platform for both
vendors and IBM.
Or mainframe is less strategic for both...
(justification: it seems to be cheaper to use AIX on pSeries)
Maybe, but if you're already running SAP on z/OS and have legacy apps
running DB2 then z/Linux maybe the right choice for QOS. I'm not sure,
but you make a good point. The high end *nix boxes have the grunt and
price points to be very attractive to companies running ERP...
15 years ago I worked on one of the first mainframe DB2 data warehouse
systems in the UK. We used SP2 AIX boxes for the mining, and they were
very quick back then. I suppose it all depends on the z10 and how IBM
prices them... They seem to be making an effort to bring to TCO down.
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