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

The key to the iSeries/pSeries convergence is that you will have the
best of both worlds available within the same hardware.  And it will be
enabled via LPAR when it happens... Today you cannot run native AIX 5L
on the iSeries, you can run PASE, but that is not a full AIX 5L.

I can see the future where a shop can be running a large iSeries (or
whatever name IBM picks, Pi or Ip series? talk about confusion!) with
partitions running classic iSeries OS/400 applications as well as native
AIX partitions running a Web store.  With the system management
enhancements that are coming, this environment would dynamically balance
CPU and memory resources among the partitions such that the sum of the
parts is greater than the whole (i.e. if peak usage varies between the
partitions at different times, you can dynamically size each partition
as the peak usage is occurring).  This may not be useful to a 100%
OS/400 shop, but I'm sure there are more than a few shops with pSeries
and iSeries investments that in the future can be planned and leveraged
together for better bang for the buck.  The latest step in this
direction by IBM is the new i890 and the new p690, which under the
covers are both basically the same hardware running the POWER4 chip set.

Just my opinion......

glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Dare [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:59 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: 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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