Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Altmark
On Wednesday, 12/10/2008 at 09:13 EST, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you one and all for your suggestions and insights on how to approach this task. In spite of the poor track record of IBM, this case is not their fault. Its being driven strictly from a group who is used to

z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Mitchell
Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process. Here in short is what I've been tasked with: The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX (AIX) Admin group last year about this time. They are now suggesting we move

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Neale Ferguson
See: http://www.linuxvm.org/present/SHARE110/S9206uc.pdf This was a user who went the other way (AIX-Linux on z). On 12/9/08 2:57 PM, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process.

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:57:11 -0600, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process. Here in short is what I've be en tasked with: The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Steve Mitchell wrote: Having been a technician my entire career I don't posses much knowledge of the intricacies of the budgeting process. Here in short is what I've been tasked with: The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX (AIX) Admin group last year

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Huegel, Thomas
the 'rack' server aps to Z. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steve Mitchell Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:57 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness Having been a technician my entire career I

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread David Kreuter
(in no mood today or ever to be blindsided by P series - again -) From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Huegel, Thomas Sent: Tue 12/9/2008 3:41 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness Contact your IBM z

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Post
On 12/9/2008 at 2:57 PM, Steve Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The support of our linux guests was moved to the UNIX (AIX) Admin group last year about this time. They are now suggesting we move all the linux work to AIX because its 'cheaper' and 'more reliable'. Umm, yeah. Right. I've

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
: [IBMVM] z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness Contact your IBM z/sales person (I know they are harder to find than = hens teeth now days) if you can find a good one they will be able to = provide you with many studies on the subject. Maybe the most compelling of all is IBM's green effort. IBM itself

Re: z/VM Linux Cost effectiveness

2008-12-09 Thread Jim Bohnsack
My apologies. I meant Neal Ferguson and wrote Mark Post. I'm sorry. Jim Well said, David. Also Mark Post in a later append on this thread. Jim (IBM retiree and 100% mainframe believer) Bohnsack -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell [EMAIL