One should ask some really tough questions :) When was your last release for this platform? What date is the next planned update? How does that compare to the other platform? Are they on the same level? How many other z customers do you have? Can you give me references? Quiz the marketing rep--- who else is he/she marketing too at the moment? Can we have some joint discussions/presentations?
(once bitten twice shy :) I kinda feel for the vendors. This is a very tough and really super educated crowd. (what other computer internet list can you get on and not get ripped apart for being clueless ? :) While that it is good, that just means fewer vendors are going to tread into the z linux space without a good sized handful of customers with checkbooks (unless they are IBM - but hey, not even all their stuff runs on z linux :) Even CA hasn't made good progress in z Linux things and their pockets are probably deep and they do understand the z customers. We've had some success in getting together with other large customers and pressuring the vendors to deliver z linux agents for their stuff (we're not even asking for the servers -- just the darn agents so we can fall in line with the company choices -- choices made by the distributed world czars). Levanta did really help with a lot of the systems management issues that Mike asked about. The interface to the VM directory (whether it be VM:secure, Dirmaint/RACF, or xedit the big file) - call that 'virtual bare metal' if you will, was flawless. They solved the DASD sharing problem transparently to the server with their mapfs filesystem. Being venture capitalist funded... They ran outta time (but imploded way way after the rest of those who came on the map in 2000 :) Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 7:06 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Systems management - quick survey? >>> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks to all who replied. > > I did get a note off-list that Aduva does still support System z: >>Yes, we do still have a version that >>supports Z - but most of our growth is really in the distributed Linux >>and Solaris space. > > So I apologize to Aduva for suggesting their product might be dead. Perhaps, but try finding any mention of that on their web site. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
