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Pat,

No offence taken. :-)

I'd sure like to know what IBM's budget is for AIX
myself. No - MVS isn't dead, but it sure isn't out
partying every night now either. Like a lot of us
it's settled down in it's old age. That's what I see
for OS/400. Sure I'll probably end my career still
working on it, but I certainly won't be encouraging my
son to plan a career working on it.

As to Vista being the answer to everybody's dreams - I
think you meant nightmares ! ;-)

...Neil

--- Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It was not meant as a rebuke of your article. I
think IBM hasn't
really decided where they might be going with the
various systems.

I also doubt that one or two people inside IBM also
"know"
what might happen down the road. They employ an
awful
lot of folks and almost nothing is decided by one
person.

I am concerned about the future of the system, as
are all of us.

I don't think it is quite as clear as folks would
believe about the
the demise of any system. I recall Unix being called
a "dead"
system about 10-15 years back.

Is MVS dead ? The last I heard, it was still perking
along
cranking out a release ever so often. I worked on
MVS back
in 1974.

Since the feeling is that Unix/AIX is the next
bright thing, I would
point out that there was at last count, a couple
hundred versions
of Unix, none being actively developed by anybody.

Since nobody actually "owns" the Unix, why would
any company
spend millions of dollars "developing" it ?

(I guess Bell Labs still "owns' a version)

I know almost nothing about Unix and at this point
in my life, I
tend to believe I will skip that learning process.

Maybe Unix is the answer to everybody's dreams.
Maybe Linux is the answer to everybody's deams.
Maybe Vista is the answer to everybody's dreams.

Maybe everything you say will come to pass.

I doubt that anybody on this list will live to see
the final
answer.


Neil Palmer wrote:

Pat,


No, they won't kill it, they will let it slowly
fade
away over the next decade or so and eventually it
will
die of natural causes. I wish it weren't true, but
as
the saying goes "don't shoot the messenger". ;-)


...Neil



Neil Palmer, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

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