Customers Management were interested in z/Linux because of the customers legacy systems, and a wish to utilise current mainframe resources.
Analysis of customers current setup were performed and it was decided to POC Linux/Open Source capabilities for various parts of infrastructure and select applications.
| Customer part | Open Source part |
|---|---|
| Microsoft Frontpage | Apache |
| Microsoft shared network drive | SAMBA |
| Novell Netware | SuSE Linux (SLeS) |
| Novell Directory Service | LDAP |
| Microsoft print server | Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) |
| Microsoft DNS | BIND |
The Open Source parts were installed and a system demo was planned, with the intent to show the capabilities of the Open Source parts compared to the already implemented customer parts.
At the first system demo nothing worked as planned, and as it was later discovered, because the customers employees had deliberately changed IP adresses in their infrastructure, with the intent to ensure system demo failed.
The POC was cancelled following several successful attempts from the customers employees to implement changes to customers infrastructure, to ensure malfunction of z/Linux POC applications.
| Competences and technologies used: |
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| Technical Project Management, IT Project Management, Business analysis, Vendor Management, Project Management, System Architecture, System Design, Requirement specification, z-Series, Mainframe, Open Source, Linux, Suse Linux, Database, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, PostgGreSQL, z/VM, SSH, DNS, Samba, CUPS (Print), Apache, Network, TCP/IP, Novell Netware, Novell Directory Services (NDS), LDAP, Microsoft Frontpage, Microsoft Windows NT server 4.0, Microsoft Windows 2000 server, |