RE: linux vs AS/400

["Walden Leverich" <walden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy,

IMHO, linux is great for several reasons. I can run it on just about any PC
like hardware, I can hack the kernel or other code to change anything I
don't like, and if I need a driver for a piece of hardware there is probably
already one, and if not, I can find someone in the 10,000 or so linux
developers that will write it for me this weekend just "because it's fun"

Having said that, WHY would you run, or try to run, your enterprise on it.
Linux is a great platform to play on, to try stuff on, to mess around with,
etc. OS/400 is none of these, OS/400 is STABLE, period! If I'm going to play
the greatest games, mess around with bleeding hardware and barely-beta
software linux is there for me, if I'm going to run a multi-million/billion
dollar company, OS/400 is the only choice.

-Walden

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Roy H Schnauss
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 10:24 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: linux vs AS/400


How does a unix machine compare to an AS/400 as far as mission critical
work?  Price performance ratio?  A friend of mine works on a nightmare NT
server for a large company and they have lots of trouble.  He wishes he had
a unix server for reliability.  So how does unix compare to the AS/400?

Thanks,

Roy Schnauss
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