Got a Spare Mainframe… Run Windows
March 6, 2009
Most trophy generation computer wizards don’t have empathy for the double rows of function keys on keyboard for your basic IBM or IBM compatible mainframe. For the lucky mainframer who wants to make the jump to Windows, Mantissa will introduce software that allows a mainframe running IBM’s z/VM to run Windows. You can read the Network World story “Microsoft Windows on a Mainframe” here. Once you have several thousand instances of Windows Vista running, maintenance and support will be: [a] easier, [b] more economical, [c] unchanged, [d] unknown. One answer only, please. From my point of view, let’s assume that each Vista instance is running the Google desktop search system and indexing shared folders. I wonder about the potential bottlenecks. Trivial or monumental? As an old mainframer, the bottlenecks can be addressed. Just bring money. Lots of money. My hunch is that if this made economic and technical sense, the Googlers would have embraced this approach. What’s your view, you old mainframers, you?
Stephen Arnold, March 6, 2009
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