RE: A boost for Linux on the 400 ?

[Eric DeLong <Eric.DeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

     Well, gee Don, what if somebody (not you, obviously ;) wanted to 
     run all of that stuff on one single box? What if they knew nothing 
     about how to maintain all that stuff on their own, but still needed 
     all those platforms to run their software systems? 
     
     I don't think the idea is to bring people to the AS400 with Linux. 
     Rather, it's just another + to the value proposition by giving us 
     (current customers) additional options. With server consolidation 
     becoming increasingly important to IT departments, it makes sense 
     (to me).
     
     Eric


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Subject: Re: A boost for Linux on the 400 ?
Author:  "Don" <SMTP:dr2@cssas400.com> at EXCHANGE
Date:    12/28/00 12:19 PM


On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Neil Palmer wrote:
     
> This is the type of Microsoft "publicity" that just may lead more people 
> to look at replacing Windows with Linux - hopefully on a 400 !
     
OK, now, maybe I'm not seeing something here, but....   It's my 
understanding that in effect Linux runs as a symbiant on the 400 and that 
it runs on top of OS/400 or in effect requires OS/400 to be installed as 
the base/hose o/s.  Which means that you have to have os/400 to run 
linux...which is to say that Linux is NOT the base o/s on the box.
     
I think this is correct so far, and I'm sure I'll get a flood of email if 
I'm wrong.
     
What the above scenerio begs is the question of "why would ANYONE buy a 
AS/400 just to run Linux"?  Guys, you can get a raid-5/mirrored pentium 
server to load linux on for a FRACTION of the price of a 400....
So, why would someone spend the extra bucks for the 400 just to load linux 
on it?  I know.  I'm getting a pentium box now to load linux/apache on at 
the office here...then my systems will be almost complete (NT, Linux, DOS, 
Windows,NT server, (Super Secret system from Rochester MN that IBM 
sells)...only thing left I might want would be a MPE box...:)
     
What don't I see here that I missing?
     
Don in DC (bracing for onslaught of flames...:)
     
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