Google news actually picked up on this one:
Plan to Shrink 3,900 Computer Servers to About 30 Mainframes Targets 80
Percent Energy Reduction Over Five Years
August 01, 2007: 08:45 AM EST
In one of the most significant transformations of its worldwide data centers
in a generation, IBM (NYSE:
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Google news actually picked up on this one:
Plan to Sh
On 1 Aug 2007 09:14:48 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Harrison) wrote:
>Google news actually picked up on this one:
>
>Plan to Shrink 3,900 Computer Servers to About 30 Mainframes Targets 80
>Percent Energy Reduction Over Five Years
>
>In one of the most significant transformations of its worldwid
Eric Chevalier writes:
>Yes, that's certainly good news about "System z" hardware. But I don't
>see very many jobs opening up for *z/OS* Systems Programmers as a
>result of this project.
I do, at least with reasonable probability.
There are now 30 additional System z Enterprise Class mainframes i
On 2 Aug 2007 00:37:51 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote:
>I do, at least with reasonable probability.
>
>There are now 30 additional System z Enterprise Class mainframes in the
>world. z/OS runs exclusively on mainframes. z/OS runs an increasing
>superset of standard middleware..
I think what Timothy and perhaps others are suggesting, is that Linux
may serve as a kind of loss leader for System Z. Say Company XYZ
decides to do like IBM and replace 100 Windows/Unix servers with z/VM
and Linux. Then, a year later, they are looking for a high-reliability
database server
It's a simple case of "NO SOUP FOR YOU DINOS" with strong hint about what
we should be learning.
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 08:19:02 -0500, Eric Chevalier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Now, maybe the CNN article got the details wrong. But IBM's own press
>release[1] _also_ states "Linux", not z/OS. (I
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On 2 Aug 2007 06:58:23 -0700, Art Celestini wrote:
>I think what Timothy and perhaps others are suggesting, is that Linux
>may serve as a kind of loss leader for System Z. Say Company XYZ
>decides to do like IBM and replace 100 Windows/Unix servers with z/VM
>and Linux. Then, a year later,
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> Linux on
Eric Chevalier writes:
>Your example of Company XYZ, deciding to replace 100 Windows/Unix
>servers with z/VM and Linux, implies that the firm is purchasing its
>*first* System z box. After the server migration is completed, when
>XYZ decides they need that high-reliability database server, I suspec
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:23:32 -0500, Eric Chevalier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Yes, that's certainly good news about "System z" hardware. But I don't
>see very many jobs opening up for *z/OS* Systems Programmers as a
>result of this project.
But it may help reduce job closings for z/OS folks. Linu
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