Compatibility across our whole range

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What does Linux mean to the future of the AS/400?  What
> does it mean to the future of all systems offered by IBM?
> Here's one way of looking at things:  If the same
> operating system were supported on all IBM platforms from
> the PC's all the way up to the big enterprise systems,
> we would have source compatibility across our whole range!

Hans--

I hope you forgot a smiley! Listen to what you're saying!
You make it sound as though enterprise operating systems were the commodity
toilet paper is!

Dr Frank already promised us that Java would provide souce compatibility
across our whole range. Does IBM so desparately need a backup bet to that
promise that it proposes Linux from ThinkPads to 390s as its Next Big Thing?

Hans, you're a respectable voice of reason. Please tell us the aliens don't
have you in a cocoon!

rp (what's the emoticon for perplexed!)



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