> I read the first part of that last sentence as saying: "We're having > trouble keeping VSE support going as it is, without worrying about > 64-bit."
Phil: You are reading something in to this that is not there. We have almost no requirement to make VSE/ESA itself 64-bit capable. There are no customers (that I am aware of) that need the memory extension 64-bit would supply. The big memory items (like WebSphere) can run on Linux under z/VM alongside VSE/ESA. We believe that the best way to extend VSE/ESA is by using Linux on zSeries. One of the great things in the z/Architecture design is that 64-bit and 31-bit systems can happily coexist with each other on the same processor with no loss of performance. Why spend huge amounts of money making VSE 64-bit if there is no functional need to do so? Regards, Jim
