zPDT may work well for develpoment, but it's the classic catch-22 situation since IBM doesn't provide a viable entry level platform for actually *running* such an application. I'm sure zPDT comes mired in rules about what kind of work can and cannot be run on it.
While wearing my IBM i hat this week, I'm looking at a quote for an IBM Power 7, 720 6 core machine, 64GB of memory, 5TB of internal disk behind two pair of 1.8GB cache adaptors. All this hardware comes in well under $100K. That would be a very good sized z/OS installation if it could run on there, and of course the Power 7 hardware can be had in much smaller footprints as well. Dana On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:27:15 +0800, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 30/01/2013 1:07 PM, Don Williams wrote: >> Hi Scott, >> >> While I've heard of zPDT, I don't really know/understand what is does or >> offers a vendor. Sounds like zPDT is an affordable and effective platform. >> Too bad some vendor did not use it to develop an z/OS EMR package for >> hospitals that already have a z/OS infrastructure. > > >It offers vendors who have no need for a sysplex a cheap >development/testing/demo environment that they can run on a laptop, >desktop or rack server. >It would be interesting to see how it measures up running a production >workload on the latest x86 iron like >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/enterprise/x3850x5/specs.html >compared to a business class mainframe like a z114. > > >> Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
