RE: Mutlti-Platform AS/400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Sounds like this guy took a garbled version of the PASE announcement, dim
memories of NT running on the FSIOP-or-whatever-it-is-this-week, rumors of AIX
for Intel on the FSIOP-whatever, and speculation about how IBM _might_ support
Linux on the /400 and mixed it all together a most peculiar stew.

Dave Shaw 

-----Original Message-----
From: Murphy, Guy [mailto:murphy@uif.uillinois.edu]

        We got the following fax from Levi, Ray & Shuop Inc.  an IBM business
partner and the people who sold us our AS/400s.  It's quite stunning and I'll
present the fax in its entirety.  Has anyone else received similar information?
I've looked on the IBM Announcement web site and found nothing like this.  I did
find http://www.ibm.com/servers/news/linux.phtml and it does mention that IBM is
going to make the AS/400 Linux friendly.


DATE:           January 25, 2000 
FROM    :       John Schnell 
COMPANY:        Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. 
SUBJECT:        IBM AS/400 to Offer Operating System Choices 
IBM announced on Tuesday that it will offer additional operating system choices
on the IBM AS/400, part of a new strategy to allow IBM's business computers to
run multiple types of operating software.
It's an idea whose time has come.  The AS/400 uses only IBM PowerPC processors.
That will allow IBM to easily port IBM AIX, IBM Unix operating system, to the
AS/400.
That's just the first step.  IBM also plans to allow Windows/NT and Linux to run
natively on the AS/400.  IBM has developed technologies to plug-in Intel chips,
so that the AS/00 can run the fastest growing platforms, like NT and Unix.  In
time, IBM plans to have AS/400's running Linux.
Big Blue's brawny AS/400 computers are the company's stalwarts, with a large
following of corporate customers who love the servers for their reliable
performance.  The AS/400's run complex business software, such as financial
programs and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, used to manage
finances and control business operations.
IBM had continued to augment the functional capabilities of AS/400's over the
years.  Linux will be a high-profile add-on.  A more robust version of Linux for
AS/400 will allow Linux to run large business computers more reliably.  All IBM
enhancements to Linux will be made available to the worldwide Linux community.
The AS/400 becomes the first IBM computer to work with three different operating
systems(OS/400,Windows/NT, and AIX), with plans for a fourth (Linux).  The
multi-operating system capacity will extend the life of the AS/400, and give
Linux its biggest endorsement to date.
IBM sees Linux as one key to driving application development for its specialized
and single-purpose servers.  But while IBM is tapping Linux's devoted, worldwide
developer community, it is clear that no single technology architecture solves
all of a business's problems.  IBM sees an enormous opportunity to help
companies integrate disparate systems, and plan for the explosive growth of the
Internet.
Enter the multi-platform AS/400 
Sincerely 
John Schnell 
Senior Marketing Representative 


Guy Murphy - FACTS system 
University of Illinois 
217-333-8670 
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