Re: The One Percent Club

Steve Richter wrote:
I read the article as IBM giving up on i5/OS the OS
and repositioning it as a superior way to run other
operation systems.

Your messages are as full of guile and artifice as they ever were, Steve.

There are a number of threads running through Frank Soltis's comments.  He's an 
advocate of common hardware and software across all platforms.  He may support 
homogeneous branding, too.  But his major theme is the idea of managing 
multiple runtime environments through shared hardware and a single console, 
where I5/OS is in control.  He's advocating server consolidation.  

Bring in Windows, Unix, Linux, and I5/OS, under the control of I5/OS, and Power 
processors.  His strategy is an alternative to the proliferation of disparate 
systems in data centers.  He sees a lot of waste in that.  He proposes I5/OS as 
an integration and consolidation strategy.  I5/OS is the only operating system 
he proposes for handling the integration.

Contrast a platform assimilation strategy (like Java), or a dominant propriety 
platform strategy (like Windows), with a platform integration strategy, where 
each platform retains many distinctive characteristics, but shares hardware, a 
single console, and a number of standard interfaces (like I5/OS).

Nathan.




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