RE: The One Percent Club

-----Original Message-----
From: Holden Tommy [mailto:Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The One Percent Club


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good for IBM, not good for those running i5/OS ( no improvements planned
for i5/OS ) 
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Did we read the same article?

I didn't see anywhere in the link provided earlier that stated i5/OS
would not have any more improvements.  I did see that Frank said that HE
considered i5/OS as more of an application environment than an OS but
that's a far cry from saying the OS wouldn't have any improvements. 

Tommy, ITJungle is reporting no new release of i5/OS in 2007 and Dr Frank in 
this interview talks up i5/OS as a better way to run Linux and AIX.  I guess it 
does not matter much. Either the i5 matches the price/performance of the p5 or 
we are done.  It is interesting that i5/OS, AIX and Linux appear to be done 
feature wise while MSFT continues to pile on the improvements to Windows. 

-Steve