Re: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)

Why not leave AS/400 iSeries with the Lpar technology and support any other
OSes like u can do right now.  It sounds to me like a gimic this "Statement
of Direction" combiniing the iSeries and pSeries and call it "Convergent
Technology". IBM has always been creative with BIG words just to make people
happy and not panic.  Doesn't LPAR runs OS400, AIX and other OSes?

Dare


----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Birnbaum" <gbirnba@rei.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)


> More proof of the commitment to the iSeries/AS400 is what I consider the
> most significant part of the 4/29 announcements:  The Statement of
> Direction that iSeries and pSeries will run on convergent technology and
> that within two years you will be able to order a platform that can run
> OS/400 and also native AIX in a partition managed by a hypervisor for
> the hardware resources.  Shops that have big investments in both
> platforms will have all sorts of options......  I can't wait!
>
> Glenn Birnbaum
> REI
>
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