[geeks] Careeer shifting

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 06:20, joshua d boyd wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 10:41:56PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > While I'm thinking of it, I just found out that they replaced the S/390s
> > at my dad's office with some new IBM mainframe.  Anybody know anything
> > about these?  I'd like to take a stab at the mainframe world, but it
> > seems to be one of those "closed systems".
> 
> Err, I'd say that they are either Z servers (which is still s/390 pretty
> much), or they are AS/400s which I don't usually think of as mainframes,
> but that is where they get sold on Ebay.

No, got to be Z servers...  The databases in question are multiple
hundreds of GB, with 3-4 indexes per database.  8000 updates an hour,
off peak, isn't uncommon.
	Greg