On Thursday, 04/10/2008 at 09:23 EDT, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, you cannot run such software on z/VM. The phrasing is very, very poor. > What they really mean would be something like: "You may be able > to consolidate work currently running on Windows and other UNIX platforms by > use of equivalent software which can run on Linux on System z, if such > software exists." But marketing never likes to phrase things like that.
To be fair, it does say consolidate "workloads", not "servers". And to have to change "workloads" to "workloads-using-programs-for-which-there-exists-a-sufficiently-equivalent-program-built-for-the-System-z-architecture-by-which-we-mean-the-instruction-set-used-on-the-IBM-mainframe--contact-your-application-vendor-for-details" would simply distract from the message. I mean, we use the term "workload" a LOT. And as we've see here recently, there *is* a company working to bring the ability to host Windows workloads-using-the-same-programs-that-you-are-using-now to System z. But it's certainly fair to ask the question, "What do you mean by 'workloads'?" during a fact-finding mission, as technology changes can alter the definition in the blink of an eye. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
