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Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Stallings on the Modern Mainframe

If you’ve ever met Jim Stallings you know he has a very “dynamic” personality. He’s also a visionary leader. This article just published is just as fascinating as listening to him.

In it, he also cites that it takes 9 seconds (yes, 9s) to provision a Linux server on the Mainframe. It really is like snapping a finger. It amazes me companies are still spending days, weeks, a month (or two if you’re a certain large accounting firm I know of…) to just provision a server. That’s mind boggling - there are so many tools to speed that up even if you’re not a mainframe user.