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Subject: RE: NY Times Reports "Little Blue "- IBM to Offer Smaller Version Of Its Mainframe Computer
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 18:34:05 -0400
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midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  12. RE: NY Times Reports "Little Blue "- IBM to Offer Smaller
>      Version Of    Its Mainframe Computer (DKM)
>
>date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 10:02:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I tend to agree, IBM is moving to having a 'universal' box to run any and 
>everything.
>
>"Thompson, Glenn" wrote:
>I believe the ultimate strategy from IBM is to be able to sell 1 box and
>run whatever you want on it.


Like most, I would have thought the same. But I recalled a related reference in 
regards to pSeries and iSeries convergence that contradicted the thought. An 
article about it --

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I29C42B0D
or
http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/content/f3/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewArticle&articleID=50621

Anybody have more recent or specific info?

Tom Liotta

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