RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GOOD thoughts Buck..

You're right.  WE USERS and User Groups (ESPECIALLY COMMON!) need to be
transitioning from a hardware centric mentality/marketing mode to that of
a o/s centric...  And frankly in short order, to application centric.

Where the world is going is very much like your telephone:  you pick it
up, dial 10 digits (depending on country) and you expect to hear a dial
tone, a ring and a friendly voice answering "Mama Leone's..." at the other
end...  You don't and in the future WON'T care that it's running on some
unix box probably based in Jersey or some other place...  You just want
the application to work....:)

Don in DC

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Buck Calabro wrote:

> The business case is reasonably clear: it costs real money for IBM to
> support/maintain/enhance the myriad permutations of software across multiple
> hardware/software platforms.  Anything they can do to reduce those costs
> will directly increase their profits.  Which, oddly enough, they exist to
> do.
>
> So instead of maintaining Xedit for MVS, SEU for OS400, Code for Windows,
> VAJava's IDE and who knows how many more editors, they get to maintain
> Eclipse plugins.  One set of them, in Java, which run on all those
> software/hardware platforms without change.
>
> I think it's burying my head in the sand to disregard the impact their
> decision will have on my career (such as it is.)  We've already got used to
> "iSeries" being divorced from the marvellous CISC architecture it was born
> as.  So iSeries doesn't mean hardware.  What does it mean?  If IBM created
> an OS/400 shell to run atop Linux, would we still care?  Hint: We still have
> S/38 mode for old code and call the new stuff "native."
>
> Will Linux be the ONLY OS in two years?  Probably not.  Will it be an IBM
> push in 2 years?  It might be if they can create an emulation environment
> that will run under Linux.  zOS will be the hard one to move because of all
> the custom assembler stuff, but OS400 is more or less technology
> independent...
>
> I am neither surprised nor frightened by the prospect of another round of
> changes to what we old-timers prosaically call Data Processing.
>   --buck
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