RE: Oracle on the iSeries !

As I understand it, the answer is yes and no.  <grin>

It's not just the color of the front panel and which set of CD you use to
load the box.

The difference is the iSeries' use of IOPs.  The pSeries doesn't know
anything about these.  The CPUs are certainly the same; as are I believe the
buses and mainboard.  I don't recall if the iSeries IOAs are different from
the pSeries.  It's possible they are since they work with the iSeries IOPs.

Though the IBM's intent is to allow AIX to be run on iSeries, I don't think
you'll see OS/400 on pSeries.  It's alot easier to work around the extra
(from AIX point-of-view) hardware than to work around missing hardware.
IIRC, IBM in fact does this with dedicated Linux partitions you can have for
example an Ethernet adapter dedicated to Linux that isn't tied to an IOP.

HTH,
Charles



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Booth Martin [mailto:Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 4:56 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Oracle on the iSeries !
> 
> 
> Now I am really confused.  Isn't the hardware merging?  Does 
> AIX and OS/400
> run on the same box depending on which CD's you use to load 
> the operating
> system?  Somewhere I have heard the only difference in the 
> hardware is the
> color of the panel on the front of the cabinet.  
> 
> In other words doesn't Oracle already operate natively on IBM 
> hardware?
>  
>  
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Date: 02/24/04 13:45:29
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Oracle on the iSeries !
>  
> I am pretty sure that there was a statement of direction that 
> AIX will run
> native on the release after V5R2.
>  
> Rob Berendt
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