a nice mention

[Seth Cohn <scohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from http://www.the400group.com

This is a subscriber only article, so I'm forwarding it:

           Native Linux move to AS/400 not imminent

 Insider Weekly for AS/400 Managers

 IBMs announced strategy of making all of their
 servers fully Linux enabled will have little
 impact on the AS/400 in the short term.

 The AS/400 division currently has no plans to
 natively support Linux, according to remarks
 AS/400 gm Tom Jarosh made to business partners on
 a recent conference call. Presently, the AS/400 is
 able to support Linux clients and is also an
 integration partner with Linux servers. 

 However, Jarosh did not rule out that someday the
 same PASE technology that enables Unix
 applications to run on the AS/400 will allow Linux
 to do the same.

 Linux is freeware

 Linux is a Unix like freeware operating system. It
 consists of open source code so that developers
 have access to and can update and add features to
 the operating system. It is popular for hosting
 Web servers and is increasing in popularity as a
 desktop OS. 

 Linux runs on a variety of hardware, such as Intel
 and Macs. It also communicates to a variety of
 networks, including TCP/IP, Novell Netware,
 Microsoft Networking, and SNA. You can download
 Linux now (see Web site at end of article).

 "Its more a server gone desktop than a desktop
 gone server," comments Jason Felice, a
 Linux-AS/400 developer in his spare time. 

 Linux TN5250 tool available for AS/400

 The efforts to integrate Linux and the AS/400
 began about 18 months ago, led by a group
 independent of IBM. Thus far, their efforts have
 resulted in a TN5250 emulation tool. It is still
 evolving and being refined, with early beta
 testers reporting its prone to bugginess. They
 cite benefits of fast execution and the fact that
 you dont have to load features that you wont
 use, resulting in a smaller footprint.

 Felice says AS/400-Linux efforts are taking aim at
 file transfer and the equivalent of an AS/400 ODBC
 Linux driver. For more AS/400 specific Linux
 information, see www.blarg.net/~mmadore; for
 general Linux information, see www.linux.com. 


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