Greeting Listers... I have been getting plenty of questions within our organization lately regarding the support capabilities of the zLinux environment for a variety of service and infrastructure applications we employ....one of the latest is Novell's iPrint (which we are a heavy user of)....
I know that iPrint is supported on SLES on the x86 platform, but the question has come up (multiple times) "Is iPrint supported under SLES on System z? Can we virtualize it like other infrastructure services on z? It's supported on SLES on x86.....why not SLES on System z?....SLES and iPrint are both Novell products....." .... you get the idea. This is a common and obviously oversimplified perspective, but it's there nonetheless. ;-) Anyway, the short answer from Novell is: No....the longer answer is: It is not currently on the map, some reasons technical (undetermined), some reasons business case..... But since our organization is looking at everything we can to determine viability for consolidation/virtualization, I wanted to query the list on a few things: 1. Are other organizations out there using iPrint on SLES (on x86) who are also using SLES on System z? 2. If Novell iPrint were an option for SLES on System z (and you were using iPrint) would you host it on System z? If not, can you share your rationale/perspective? 3. Does there appear to be a business case/demand out there for Novell to support iPrint under SLES on System z (that Novell is unaware of)? 4. Is it even worthwhile to explore (like I don't have enough to do already....)? Thanks in advance for your thoughts and perspectives, Gene Gene Carter Capital Group Companies 3500 Wiseman Blvd San Antonio, TX 78251 210-474-3194 gene_car...@capgroup.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
