RE: iSeries vs. Unix vs. SQL Server vs. Oracle & Security/Dataseparation???

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Don:

Ummm... what? It moots the 1 iSeries server point??? Consider -- isn't this 
almost exactly what the point of LPAR really is?

Consider, for example, running Linux in an LPAR to provide the separation.

Tom Liotta


midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  10. RE: iSeries vs. Unix vs. SQL Server vs. Oracle &
>      Security/Data se  paration??? (McIntyre Don)
>
>--- "DeLong, Eric" <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Don,
>> 
>> I expect the the recommendations are, generally,
>> what is considered best
>> practice.  It's generally unsafe to expose your
>> critical databases (and
>> servers) to the public directly. 
>
>I understand the concept and reasoning behind this.
>
>This practice moots the 1 iSeries Server argument. 
>'Now I HAVE to have more than one Server to provide
>proper security'.  And it doesn't matter if the
>deployment server is iSeries (according to the
>'Experts')

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