I’ve been away from SHARE for far too long. It’s really great to hear positive things about Linux on zSeries again, rather than the crap I have to put up with at home.
In Australia, there is no evangelism of zSeries. There’s an attitude bordering on arrogance that seems to say “we’re not going to explain zSeries to you; if you don’t know you want it already then you’re not worth it”. At least that’s what it looks like to me.
I’m surrounded by people who think that all problems can be solved by installing an xSeries or pSeries machine. Maybe some can be, but IMHO they’ll be replacing one set of problems with another (possibly greater) set.
Anyway, it’s nice to hear different stories — like a company whose IT costs went from 1.7% to 0.9% of sales by migrating their ENTIRE server farm (including about a dozen p690s) to a z990 running Linux. Like a company that has placed 250 Linux server guests onto z/VM inside a year, freezing acquisition of new discrete servers.
Crossed Wires 