IANA IBM'er. However, I have been looking extensively into virtualization as a means to save my company some serious GREEN dollars, not funny money and not eco-dollars.
VMware also provides much of the same functionality, but only runs on *IX based HW(Sun, HP,...). I do not think (and I could be wrong) that VMware supports running on a z/box at all. The Mantissa offering is very enticing to my company because of the consolidation opportunities. However, at my last check, the economics did not seem to favor x86 consolidation on z. The z/10 changed the numbers, but not enough to tip the scale. When accomplished, (via VMware or Mantissa VOS) the consolidation will save us some serious money currently going to our disaster recovery vendor. I have no inside information, however, I would imagine the Mantissa folks are writing a "virtual x86" to run under z/VM. Regardless what IBM thinks about the viability of Windows as a mission critical vendor, if it sells more z boxes, I am sure IBM will jump on the band-wagon with both feet (and even push the wagon too!) My opinion only, and not necessarily that of my employer. <snip> Subject: Re: How to virtualize Windows under SLES Linux on zSeries - PJBR Hello Alan, I would like to come back on your statement: <snip> It's certainly interesting from an academic perspective, but it doesn't meet the needs of business. </snip> I would really like to understand IBM's view on this issue. Is it from a business point of view that Windows or Intel (x86) is not considered as a serious environment for running mission critical applications?? </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
