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This came up awhile back. If they can port OS/400 to the Playstation then why not the Mac? We must be looking at this all wrong. Someone at IBM must see huge potential for gaming on OS/400. ;) http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6836723%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html Dave Parnin Nishikawa Standard Company Topeka, IN 46571 daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Adam Lang <aalang@rutgersins To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion urance.com> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>@SMTP@CTB cc: 10/22/2003 01:46 Subject: Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix PM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midran ge.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 2:17 PM Subject: Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix > 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. In all honesty, how many sales do you think you would generate selling the OS separate? I don't know anyone that buys an iSeries just because of the OS. They buy it for the whole package. You are buying stability and performance form end to end. You run OS/400 on someone else's crappy ahrdware, and all you just bought is an expensive linux without a GUI. > 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. I put it that it would be a LOT of work, not a little. A LOT of work for making an OS cross platform for a very very small market. And it isn;t even making it cross platform .. it is makign it cross platform while retaining stability. The vast majority of problems with Linux and Windows usually comes down to hardware drivers. Now you want to introduce that to the OS/400 as well? _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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