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Microsoft Windows, On a Mainframe
coondoggie writes with an excerpt from Network World: "Software that for the first time lets users run native copies of the Windows operating systems on a mainframe will be introduced Friday by data center automation vendor Mantissa. The company's z/VOS software is a CMS application that runs on IBM's z/VM and creates a foundation for Intel-based operating systems. Users only need a desktop appliance running Microsoft's Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) client, which is the same technology used to attach to Windows running on Terminal Server or Citrix-based servers. Users will be able to connect to their virtual and fully functional Windows environments without any knowledge that the operating system and the applications are executing on the mainframe and not the desktop."
Here's a feature that Linux will never be able to match!
Lacking <sarcasm> tags,
With Big Blue or Computer Associates your data might still be on site.
MS is just warming you up (embrace, extend). Renting your company back from MS is later (extinguish).
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
You vastly overestimate their processing power. If you took a couple of those zeros away you'd still have problems.
Yep, I'd imagine a video or bus-related bottleneck would occur, regardless of how many CPU(s) cycles you'd use. Mainframes aren't designed for extreme video performance, at least the ones I've seen. Plus good luck finding Adobe Flash player for Linux running on POWER (or getting VMware's video driver to handle Vista's graphics on top of it).