tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750297140750368021.post280103982704110974..comments2023-11-13T02:59:09.581+00:00Comments on Mainframe Update: We’re all friends nowTrevor Eddollshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01503760088127669481noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8750297140750368021.post-78697962753772827602011-08-24T11:40:43.078+01:002011-08-24T11:40:43.078+01:00Trevor, as a CA Technologies Employee, allow me to...Trevor, as a CA Technologies Employee, allow me to say something non-Marketing..<br /><br />As you stated, Linux on System z (is there a way we can make a 3-4 letter acronym for that?) is slowly proving to be one of the solutions mainframe users are using to consolidate. <br />The main comment I heard from our customers was: Linux is good enough, but the tools to manage it are NOT industrial strength. Not like anything we have on the Mainframe. <br /><br />And their demands were very clear: some Linux tools just need to be better, other functionality should be managed from zOs so Linux can be managed as part of the whole, instead of another (fenced) part of the mainframe.<br /> <br />This means to me that many of the Linux applications moved to the Mainframe are integrated with zOS applications and people want to be able to manage them as 1 single entity. On the Mainframe, and where possible from zOS.<br />Since the Linux on System z market is growing at such a pace, the decision to work with both Velocity and INNOVATION was a business decision. Our customers demanded Industry Strength "Mainframe Like" solutions to manage Linux.zMarcelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17276014108783870741noreply@blogger.com