On Thursday 13 February 2014 18:25:12 Marcy Cortes wrote:
> Well I understand why the VM and VSE ( I used to work with those kinds of
> customers in a previous life and moved a boatload of them from old HW to
> new 937x with vm/esa 370 which actually lowered their bills. ) but putting
> a modern Linux on 15 year old machines seems weird when you can buy an
> intel or maybe if thats too much maybe recycle a PC that was running
> windows XP?
>
> One needs SSL but doesnt need security patches for the O/S? Kinda like
> locking the front door but leaving the windows all open? ( Or maybe I have
> just been living under the extreme security rock for too long)
>
>
> Marcy. Sent from my BlackBerry.
Most likely, the Linux VM on their system is only used to front-end
their
legacy mainframe software to the web; migrating their core business
applications would require completely rewriting them, with the almost
inevitable consequence of new bugs creeping in, plus all of the expense of
the conversion.
(One might think, though, that connecting their mainframe to a separate
Linux
box on their local network ought to be a viable alternative.)
Leslie
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