RE: Hypothetical question -- MIDRANGE-L

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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 jeff_carey@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> It is my impression that Sun can't touch things like the iSeries LPAR
> capability, backup & recovery, etc.    Personally, I think the TIMI alone
> is reason to stay on iSeries!

Solaris does support LPAR-like capabilities.  While not supporting as many
partitions as say, IBM's mainframes, you still have all the same
capabilties.  You can assign a given hardware resource to a particular
partition.  Or you can assign hardware to be a hot spare to a given
partition.  Hot swap of memory, cpu, and any other hardware are all
supported.

> Admittedly, I know little about Sun.   What are some of the things that the
> iSeries does well that Sun doesn't do (and doesn't look like it will do)?

Well RPG for one.  And as someone already mentioned 5250 subfiles.  If you
have a lot of green screen apps you could be in trouble.

James Rich

"As for security, being lectured by Microsoft is like receiving wise words on 
the subject of compassion from Stalin."
      -- mormop on lwn.net

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