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IBM, as with any company, likes a captive customer. OS/400 is owned by IBM. Would IBM willingly throw away their lock on this huge customer base? I'd bet against it. Linux is useful for many things, including as an irritant to sprinkle on Bill Gates' toilet paper but its not going to blow out UNIX. --------------------------------------------------------- Booth Martin http://www.MartinVT.com Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------- -------Original Message------- From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Date: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 18:32:32 To: 'Midrange' Subject: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments??? I don't think I agree with this "vision" .... but I wanted to get your opinion too Kenneth Graap ............ The CIO of my company shared this vision with me this afternoon: Begin quote................................ IBM will make LINUX their operating system of choice within 2 years. What does this mean... All platforms will use LINUX as their primary OS. All existing operating environments (iSeries, zSeries etc) will have a conversion path for applications and databases to LINUX Current IBM based vendors will provide LINUX capability for their applications. Why... LINUX offers the opportunity for IBM to get out of the OS business. LINUX reduces IBM reliance on Microsoft for small server software. A common OS allows IBM to drop non cost competitive platform series without loosing the associated customer base. A common OS enables the IBM drive for on demand computing. End quote.................................................... Kenneth **************************************** Kenneth E. Graap IBM Certified Specialist AS/400e Professional System Administrator NW Natural (Gas Services) keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: 503-226-4211 x5537 FAX: 603-849-0591 ****************************************
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