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

May I second this motion. I even thought once about IBM just marketing
OS/400 indpendent of the hardware. It became quickly clear that it was made
to fit the hardware. After all, I agree that what makes this system great is
the OS400. But now they have the OS successfully seceded from the hardware,
so to speak (right?).

Now it seems like they're about ready to say OS400 can run ANYTHING, through
the partitioning.

M$ might indeed like to have their OS run "native" under an iSeries
partition, or on the same Power-PC hardware, but, they've been told (actual
quote) "you're not good enough yet". :-)  (One of those things you ask
yourself afterward, "Did I actually hear that?")

Alan




----- Original Message -----
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 5:33 PM
Subject: RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)


> I think you have to separate what we've classically thought of as "the
> AS/400" into two parts, the operating system and environment (OS/400) and
> the hardware.
>
> I have no doubt that IBM will continue to make the hardware that is
> currently the AS/400, after all it's the same hardware as a pSeries
already.
> I think you will, however, see a blending of the iSeries and pSeries to
the
> point that they aren't two platforms from a MARKETING view but rather one
> hardware platform with two (or more...) operating systems available.
Really
> no different from an Intel box that you can run Linux, W2K, FreeBSD,
> Solaris, etc. on.
>
> We can no longer think of "our AS/400" as something that is both hardware
> and software, we need to move on to thinking about "our OS/400".
>
> -Walden
>