RE: The status quo and the future...

What is this idea of OS/400 running on Intel? I hear Dr. Frank mention
that they looked into it a few years ago, and that it would cost X to
port it. I think the number was either $20 million or $50 million to do
it.

But PowerPC is so much better than Pentium. Why do it?
Why not just work with Microsoft and have them port Windows to PowerPC.
Then IBM could make PowerPC-based Thinkpads and the things might
actually perform. Of course they would also have to offer an OS/400
version for these new ThinkPads.

That would put everything on PowerPC, iMac is already PowerPC based. In
fact, the new Power Mac G4 has dual 1Ghz PowerPC G4 CPUs in them. That's
more power than virtually every AS/400 and most iSeries boxes out there!

Bob Cozzi
cozzi@rpgiv.com
Visit the on-line  Midrange  Developer  forum at: http://www.rpgiv.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]
On
> Behalf Of Nicolay, Paul
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:35 AM
> To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: The status quo and the future...
>
> Hi,
>
> One would guess that they learned from it ?
>
> Why spending billions on someone else's technology hoping that it
helps
> against M$ ?  Why not just spending the money on your own technology,
and
> give OS/400 (running on Intel) for free to every kid at every corner
on the
> street.
>
> Free, free and free is the only reason that one even talks about
Linux...
> and definitely not the quality of the OS (then they would better talk
about
> OS/400), not the fact that it is open source (another hype... just
guess how
> many people are really capable of reading, or writing kernel code),
not the
> number of business applications (if we should be happy with OpenOffice
?),
> not the quality of the GUI (each application has a different key
combination
> to quit from it, not to mention the different incompatible desktop
> managers), not...
>
> In Europe (the States may be different) kids install on their home PCs
what
> they can copy (for free or not, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter)
and
> learn about that technology.  Not exactly a good start to build a
future
> base of people who know IBM and iSeries.
>
> Kind regards,
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard B Baird [mailto:rbaird@esourceconsulting.com]
> Sent: 11 March, 2002 14:18
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: The status quo and the future...
>
> ... snip ...
>
> IBM put a lot of thier eggs into the java basket a few years ago.  it
> didn't take off like they wanted, even though the product was
superior.
> Now they're putting a ton of eggs into the linux basket.  will it
work?
> don't know - but they gotta try.  the alternative is stagnation.
>
>
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