>Can we expect this product to be the subject of a court battle if it
>is successful in doing what it claims?  What are the medium to long
>term implications for the z series?  The i and p series?
>
>Clark Morris

Well i and p both use proprietary hardware so no effect. For the "z Series"I 
don't see a major impact, certainly immediately, but I have been wrong before 
and will be wrong again. Emulating the central CPU Channel Subsystem and API's 
isn't too hard, folks have been doing it for a long time. Most of the folks 
involved understand the issues. Replicating the entire environment is much 
harder. 

I believe that folks like my ex-employer (I am retired) are probably the likely 
takers, but not sure how many of them are left.  Up until around five years ago 
they had an MP3000 running traditional DOS/VSE CICS really had no place to go. 
They started out down the LANMANAGER, OS/2 path which became NT Servers because 
IBM pulled the plug on OS/2. This left them with an small Mainframe running 
VM/ESA & DOS/CICS and 200 or so NT servers. Given no upgrade path to a modern 
Mainframe at an affordable price, they ditched it the Mainframe. I don't 
believe IBM wants such customers unless they move to a mixed Traditional 
(VM/DOS/zOS) and Linux farm running on a large "Z" box. My employer had lots of 
commodity software in use that was tied to Windows it wasn't an option, perhaps 
for the same reasons LzLabs won't take the world by storm. 

They now have replaced the 250 NT servers with 30 IBM x3650 2 x 6 Core boxes 
running VMWARE ESXi and various flavours of Windows Server. Performance isn't 
really a problem. That's not to say there aren't performance problems, so there 
is one database app where they were the first site to buy. The developers 
decided to switch from Oracle to SQL server to save costs, and really didn't 
know how to tune the code. When I left it was improving as they tuned the 
indexing, but these issues used to occur on Mainframes...

... it will be interesting to see how many takers there are...

Dave Wade

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