>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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN