System Administration
Tools for the toolbox
Thursday, January 31, 2002Using Radio to keep some bookmarks for me while I think:
- Sysadmin Book of Knowledge: http://ace.delos.com/taxongate
- Geoff Halprins SA Body of Knowledge: http://www.sysadmin.com.au/sa-bok/
Quality Metrics in Open Communities http://www.eecs.tufts.edu/~dert/infrastructures/metrics.html
3:53:48 PM #
categories: System Administration
c|net: Linux on mainframes enters phase 2:
What we see IBM driving is the open operating system on top of proprietary hardware and trying to lock customers into the old proprietary-hardware game," said Martin Fink, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's Linux Systems Operation. HP advocates Linux running on Intel servers, which are available from many companies.They don't understand. What's the exit upgrade path for Intel hardware? for SGI hardware? for Sun hardware? for HP hardware? The lock is not the hardware. The lock is the applications. Applications drive the purchase of an operating system, and that drives the purchase of the hardware.As Gartner puts it, "No exit upgrade path for the hardware to the z900 exists," so those who use Linux on mainframes had better be committed.
2:07:14 PM #
categories: Industry, System Administration
