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> in the midrange server market, IBM has two systems that > are very much alike (hardware wise) and which are in a sense > competing against one another. One is seen as old-fashioned > and is apparently a marketing embarrassment. Once we all run > linux and no green screens anymore, there won't be enough > difference between the two series to warrant having two of them. > Ah, someone may say, but it makes a lot of sense to run > COBOL on the server as COBOL is a much better business > language than C, C++, or Java, but COBOL also runs on > the pSeries. There is my rationale. > But haven't we had this sort of discussion many times already? They wikll go where the market is, and the market tries to folow the journalists. remember OS/2? Web push technology? OS/400 will still be running 25 years from now, although it may be running on top of Linux. Linus (Unix) is a much older operating system than OS/400. The only thing that could really kill OS/400 is if all the IBM experts in it retire. What we need is an MI emulator that runs on the JVM. -- Brad Jensen brad@elstore.com President Electronic Storage Corporation Tulsa OK USA 918-664-7276 LaserVault Report Retrieval & Data Mining www.Laservault.com www.eufrates.com - Add distance learning to your site with easy course preparation
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