From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Mar 11 14:57:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net (bsdie.rwsystems.net [209.197.223.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574D437B71A for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 14:57:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jwyatt@rwsystems.net) Received: from bsdie.rwsystems.net([209.197.223.2]) (1585 bytes) by bsdie.rwsystems.net via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:56:44 -0600 (CST) (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1 built 2000-Jun-25) Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:56:44 -0600 (CST) From: James Wyatt To: Leif Neland Cc: Simon , "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" , Jeff Gray Subject: Re: co-location model In-Reply-To: <019501c0aa79$0e73aac0$6405a8c0@neland.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Leif Neland wrote: > I'm afraid to tell that it can be done with Linux... > > http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/01/1226247.shtml Sure can and the mainframe systems folks I work with have Linux posters in their cubes now! Some of the NT engineers have been converted as well. > > In the lab, 41500 virtual linux'es has been run simultaneously under VMS on an IBM S/390. > > And mainframes don't fail. Ever. (Well, almost never (G&S: Pinafore)) Anything fails, but most mainframe components can be more easily engineered to provide fault-tolerance. My primary employer has several mainframes "custered" with Sysplex for about a half-dozen large hosts. There have been failures and they have been memorable, but very few. Your largest problem might be keeping your technical talent because you will likely learn critical lessons starting up that others need solving. - Jy@ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message