Just to clarify on my earlier comments. The wealth of choices for installations is not necessarily 'bad' just potentially loaded with dead ends. I think we have all seen big 'initiatives' from IBM that were later 'withdrawn from marketing' because they just never caught on.
All the vendors do it. And each vendor has one or more set of development tools that will dovetail with one set of packaging tools. Forcing the poor guys like us to support many 'installers'. Just think about what is possible in the current world. A hardware Partition (z15) supporting one or more partitions (z/VM, Native Linux, z/OS)... With those partitions subdivided further with Docker, under some linux supporting packages that can be Java apps. or written in Python ad infinitum. Even if all the nesting dolls have 95% reliability, a 5 deep nest would have a theoretical reliabilty below 80%. Now the eventual vendor mergers happen. The new consolidated company will pick winner and loser technologies. And if we went through all the training and earned all of our experience we could end up back at square one with our 'outdated' knowledge. We can join the unemployment line with the Redbooks division of IBM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
