Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They would generate sales from the OS.  Look how quickly
linux became "popular", and then look at it's roots.  If I
could sell hardware with software, and software alone, I
would think it would be advantageous.  

I understand as is OS400 is quite proprietary, and that's
the platform's biggest problem.  Remove that problem and I
believe it would become more revenue.  A little work, yes.
 But you don't get anything for nothing.

Of course, they'd have to work on their marketing skills
which would help both hardward and software.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:44:08 -0400
 "Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Except IBMs software is not tied to one platform.  IBM
> has nothing to gain
> by running OS/400 on other software.  What extra revenue
> would they
> generate?  More DB2 sales? No.  You can just buy it and
> run it on Windows or
> Linux anyway.  Lotus software? Nope, run it on Linux or
> Windows.
> 
> IBM knows they aren't going to win an OS war, so they
> just have their
> software run on all major platforms and support it.  That
> way, no matter
> what hardware or IOS you want, you can still buy their
> software.
> 
> As with Macintosh, part of the stability of the OS/400 is
> the fact you do
> not have a near infinite amount of hardware to support.
>  When you know you
> only have x drivers to implement, you eliminate many of
> your bugs and
> conflicts.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix
> 
> 
> > Sure, it wouldn't be easy, but if IBM really wants to
> sell
> > software (like it seems they want to) then I would
> think it
> > would be something worth looking into.
> >
> > Someone get the master on the horn.  ;)
> 
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Bradley V. Stone
BVS.Tools
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