Re: Microfocus COBOL 3.2.43 (16bit)
- From: "P. Raulerson" <paul.rl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:54:55 -0600
Your guess would be partly right - I support Mainframe (z/OS, z/VM, zLinux),
AIX, Linux, iSeries (OS/400, i5OS, Linux) and several varieties of Windows,
including that blasted 64bit variant of Server 2003 that gives me heartburn.
In fact, our entire enterprise (about 350 people geographically scattered
over 25 sites) runs on Citrix served up from servers here in Austin. Citrix
would be a bit expensive for what this chap wants, but it saves us a ton of
money ,and an incredible number of support hours.
That's a corollary duty by the way, along with phone systems, network
design, security, and second assistant cook and bottle washer too I suppose.
I am best at being your everyday Sr. Software Engineer. That's in COBOL, C,
Java, Ada, Assembler, and assembly language for a few other processors. I
dabble in Visual Basic, RPG, and a half dozen other languages just because
they interest me.
(Yep: I work for good people and I have a great job, when it does not wear
me down to a nub... :)
To be fair though, I did sound arrogant, and that was not intended. I
apologize for that. It is just that I tend to solve these kinds of issues
several times per quarter, and, if this case is what I think it is, using a
centralized VM to deal with this is probably a very good idea.
On the other hand, to me, you sound like a PC person who has little
experience on other platforms. Bet you would argue that running Microsoft
Office on standalone machines is faster than running it under Citrix.
(Hint: it is much faster under Citrix. :) Where are you coming from, and am
I anywhere close to right? :)
-Paul
"Richard" <riplin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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P. Raulerson wrote:
Tsk tsk... not so. There is such a thing as a virtual machine image that
allows remote access. See for example:
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/desktop/vdi.html. It's even cost
effective.
That may be so, but that would be single-user access at any one time
for each virtual machine. If the application is installed and used
widely then it is unlikely to be useful to get the users to queue for
access to it.
I am guessing that you are a mainframer and do not have much experience
with interactive desktop or PC applications.
.
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