June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
As with any project, assessing the Return of Investment for porting an application must balance the expected advantages against the cost. There are two different cases where porting promises to be profitable:
Porting the application is very simple and means a small investment that can easily be recovered.
The expected advantages of having the application on Linux on the mainframe are significant enough to justify the required investment.
If your company uses its own proprietary applications in production, it might be able to capitalize on the quality and flexibility of the mainframe hardware. It can also take advantage of zSeries features like virtualization, HiperSockets, ...