RE: From the Comdex Rumor Department...

Heck, maybe I should go buy a copy of RedHat or Caldera instead of spending
$$$$$$$$$ to upgrade from V3R1!!!  ((That IS a joke, folks))


Jack Bogart
UNIX, AS/400 Systems Administrator
General Communications, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
Phone (907) 265-5516;  Pager (907) 268-4163     

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>              "If you had to identify, in one word, the reason the 
>                  human race has not achieved, and never will 
>                  achieve, its full potential, that word would be
>                  'meetings'".                                       --
> Dave Barry
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> From:         Roger Pence[SMTP:rp@rogerpence.com]
> Sent:         Friday, November 20, 1998 11:42 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: From the Comdex Rumor Department...
> 
> >Actually, if you port Linux over to the 400's hardware, you get Linux
> >running on a PowerPC chip... which already exists.
> 
> Doesn't that make Linux on the AS/400 the answer to the question no one
> asked? Who would want to pay premium AS/400 memory and DASD prices (which
> are certainly more competitive that ever, but still not the commodity box
> market) to run as a Linux server? what does it get you? That a nicely
> configured Dell PowerEdge doesn't?
> 
> And, for that matter, doesn't Apache stand on the same ground? Where does
> Apache fit as an AS/400 Web server?
> 
> Don't read a bigoted tone one way or another here, I'm really trying to
> figure this stuff out.
> 
> rp
> 
> 
> 
> 
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