IBM Offers Windows on Mainframes For The First Time

[cookoy]

it's Windows on an x86 server to enables front-end Windows applications to integrate with applications and data on a mainframe system. it's not Windows on mainframes.

 

[ta152h]

[citation][nom]palladin9479[/nom]I realize your just trolling like usual and trying to incite people. I happen to be a systems engineer who specializes in Solaris and SPARC, I'm fully aware of what mission critical means. I'm talking people's lives not just dollars. Do you even know what a C2 system is? Otherwise enjoy the taste of your soles.I'm not referring to home systems nor toy systems but multi-million dollar architectures which are part of multi-billion dollar programs.And for the record, I design the things your commenting on.[/citation]

People on the internet can be anything they want to be. In actuality, your lack of knowledge indicates you know nothing about mainframes. SPARC is not a mainframe, by the way, it's a workstation class chip, that doesn't compare to IBM mainframes. You wouldn't know, because you know nothing about it.

Anyone that thinks Windows can replace MVS derivatives is plain ignorant of the differences of the two. Or that these toys you play with offer anything close to the security and reliability of a mainframe. You simply don't know. Learn.

 

[hetneo]

In short run switching to Windows on mainframes is actually increasing expenses, but not being dependent on one software company for almost everything beside OS does cut down expenses in long run.

 

[thrasher32]

[citation][nom]TA152H[/nom]People on the internet can be anything they want to be. In actuality, your lack of knowledge indicates you know nothing about mainframes. SPARC is not a mainframe, by the way, it's a workstation class chip, that doesn't compare to IBM mainframes. You wouldn't know, because you know nothing about it.Anyone that thinks Windows can replace MVS derivatives is plain ignorant of the differences of the two. Or that these toys you play with offer anything close to the security and reliability of a mainframe. You simply don't know. Learn.[/citation]


"People on the internet can be anything they want to be"

Exactly. I think you are a fraud. Eat it.

 

[eddieroolz]

I question the usability of Windows in the Mainframe space, but we'll see how this turns out.

 

[palladin9479]

People on the internet can be anything they want to be. In actuality, your lack of knowledge indicates you know nothing about mainframes. SPARC is not a mainframe, by the way, it's a workstation class chip, that doesn't compare to IBM mainframes. You wouldn't know, because you know nothing about it.

Anyone that thinks Windows can replace MVS derivatives is plain ignorant of the differences of the two. Or that these toys you play with offer anything close to the security and reliability of a mainframe. You simply don't know. Learn.

Wow ... just ... wow.

Are you seriously trying to tell me that T and M series systems are "workstation class" systems?

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/servers/sparc-enterprise/m-series/m9000/overview/index.html

I'm calling it now, your bsing everyone on this forum. Your just some unemployed kid in your parents basement hammering away on keys. That would explain lots of your comments on several forums now.

The fact that you don't even know what the T3's is amazing in and of itself.

 

[Guest]

fannish stuff aside (and of course high end SPARC is serious enterprise platform), it seems people miss the point: the article's is wrong from the get-go. The z196, z114 and zBX do NOT RUN WINDOWS. They let a z connect via Ethernet to a SEPARATE FRAME with BLADES running Power or x86. As if nobody has ever done that before.

Right: "zEnterprise system will be able to connect to Windows applications"
Wrong: "The addition of x86 now enables IBM's mainframe system to support z/OS, Linux, IBM AIX, x86 Linux and Microsoft Windows. "