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Larry Bristol IBM already has such a facility: zVM and Linux for the zSeries. And yes, lots of big corporations are taking notice. This is about the third hit that I found when...
Marten Kemp
I'm not sure that replacing "ordinary" servers with a mainframe is their (IBM's) real goal. IBM mainframe customers have literally billions of dollars invested in what are sometimes referred to as "legacy" applications.
There is simply no budget for converting these applications to another platform (even if anyone considered that to be a good idea in the first place). I've been following a thread (I think it is in this newsgroup) about the relative amount of gain achieved by using multiple processors with some amusement. If one really could get twice the performance out of dual processors (all other factors being equal), then you could strap enough of them together to equal a mainframe. I thought the old infinite scalability argument was put to bed years ago!
But if IBM provides a facility that allows those customers to keep those existing legacy applications that need the processing power of a mainframe to support the current and projected transaction rates, but then make all of that data available to new distributed applications, there are going to be a lot of fortune 500 companies (about 500 of them, I would project), that would sit up and BARK!
If only I believed that IBM had the vision to pull that off ...
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