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Re:The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emul... by rodgerd on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @04:25AM (#6095029)
As someone who has spent a few years with zLinux, the "several racks of blades with zero downtime" is a story, but it's not always reality, shall we say. Good platforms, but you need to scrutinise the price:performance quite carefully.
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Re:The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emul... by aus_ on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:59AM (#6096536)
Nationwide is the poster child of consolidating on zLinux. [1] But of course, that's all marketing from IBM. I believe their target market is to customers who already have the z hardware being used for their z/OS processing. The infrastructure is already there, then customers just pay for the increasing in IFLs.

[1]: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/JSTS-7JE...

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