Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS' These are two new buzzwords that have cropped up recently

'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Schuster
These are two new buzzwords that have cropped up recently. How do these play with z/os? Thank you. Paul -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread P S
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I think that SaaS is simply SOAP, but you pay. Sounds a bit like the old Time Sharing systems that you could dial into. Indeed. What was old is new again. Cloud computing is a bit like casting your bottle

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Howard Brazee
On 17 Nov 2009 09:01:06 -0800, pgs4ibmm...@pacbell.net (Paul Schuster) wrote: These are two new buzzwords that have cropped up recently. How do these play with z/os? The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder has a Cray...

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Edward Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: z/OS could participate as a member of a cloud, but I really doubt that anybody will do that. Commodity hardware running Linux is so much cheaper. And it is, supposedly, reliable because any computer in the cloud can accept the request and return the identical response. It

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: I think that SaaS is simply SOAP, but you pay. Sounds a bit like the old Time Sharing systems that you could

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Ward, Mike S
problems, slow internet connection, etc... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS' These are two new buzzwords

Re: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS'

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Sullivan
connection, etc... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 'cloud computing' and 'SAAS' These are two new buzzwords that have cropped up