Richard Gasiorowski wrote:
I must be missing something. My original question was does IBM have an LX86 product for zLinux. The answer is no. So are you other vendors saying you have something that works or not. I am not talking windows servers- Linux servers. Personally I am surprsied that IBM presents zLinux as a platform to migrate many small linux x86 servers. It also states that the system p competes with the Unix large Suns and HP. Then turns around and makes a product for the system p to address a need which zlinux could use. Very strategic and logical thinking. No wonder they no longer use THINK as their motto.
Originally, you asked about a solution to a problem. What problem are you trying to solve? If you have a bunch of Intellish servers running Linux, the usual way to transfer the workload is to create a Linux server on a zSeries (virtual) machine. It would run a Linux kernel compiled for zSeries, apache built for zSeries, DB2, Oracle, etc built for zSeries, Java built for zSeries. One does _not_ transfer the Intellish binaries, one creates a system with equivalent zSeries binaries. One _can_ transfer files and even filesystems, Linux uses the same encoding on all platforms and filesystems code is written to not care about endianness. I am _not_ sure about floating point numbers. If you have your own programs written for Linux on intellish hardware, and the code follows sensible rules (eg no assembly code, no referencing ints as a sequence of chars setc), odds are good it will port with minimal fuss and bother. I repeat, what problem are you trying to solve? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
