19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
6:49 p.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:
HOT day here, musta been rambling, although I'm
not sure they even classify
the 390 as a mainframe - most literature and such refers to it as a server.
On anohter subject somewhat related, I hear they're pretty decent Linux
boxes - or at least the pricing for the Linux is likely better than for
OS/390. I may have even been think along the lines of the S/38.
Sridhar probably has more to say.
IBM gets a lot of press mileage out of running Linux native on the
390. But ALL the folks I know who actually run production S/390s like
VM + virtual Linux servers much better. Makes sense to me as the best
of both worlds.
I should say 10s of thousands of virtual Linux servers....
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