Contact your IBM z/sales person (I know they are harder to find than hens teeth now days) if you can find a good one they will be able to provide you with many studies on the subject. Maybe the most compelling of all is IBM's green effort. IBM itself expects to save a billion dollars by moving the 'rack' server aps to "Z".
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process. Here in short is what I've been tasked with: The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX (AIX) Admin group last year about this time. They are now suggesting we move all the linux work to AIX because its 'cheaper' and 'more reliable'. I've found and collected the conversation earlier this year regarding a 'costing method' for linux guest vs Intel servers, so I have that as a starting point. If anyone has experience with the pros/cons of AIX vs z/VM/LINUX I would appreciate any information you can share. Aside from that any other 'food for thought' you can provide is greatly appreciated. Our environment is essentially WebShpere App server and MQ, accessing DB2 data on z/OS. Yes, we are using Hipersocket connectivity to z/OS from Linux. Thanks. Steve Mitchell Sr Systems Software Specialist Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas (785) 291-8885 'There are no degrees of Honesty-you're either Honest or you're not! CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary, confidential, trade secret or privileged information. Any unauthorized review use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited and may be a violation of law. If you are not the intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering this message to an intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
