Re: The Linux Hole

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If I remember correctly from a past life working for a 5250 Emulation 
developer, we looked at porting our software to run under Linux, but found 
there wasn't a standard GUI interface to write to.  Not only would we have to 
recode every widows GUI function call, but if we were to support different 
flavors of GUI available this would have to be done multiple times!

On the Desktop side maybe this is the reason that IBM has not done much, can't 
find a standard to hang their hat on.  I know that we couldn't, but that was 
3-4 years ago, so things could have changed since then.

Also of course with my knowledge of Linux in a thimble, you'd still have room 
to park a HumVee!

-- Jim Lowary


>>> doughart@twcny.rr.com 11/08/02 12:12PM >>>

I thought I would change my PC desktop over to Linux and start getting
up to speed on it before I had to used it on my iSeries.  The PC I wanted
to use does 6 main tasks for me.  After checking into each of them I find
that the only unsupported functions would be IBM's Client Access Express
and Operations Navigator.  This seems ironic that these two functions
require Windows with all the IBM push for using Linux.


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