RE: Cheaper Servers?

["Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>]

The nuts 'n bolts can be left to Rochester.It would cost them a lot of R&D 
monies, but I'll bet the effort
would be well worth it.
Imagine, composing this e-mail, using Outlook, from a pc running OS/400!...
Hell, IBM could even start shipping their laptops and pc's with it pre-loaded, 
and a whole new culture would spring up..
Make it, and they will come....LOL
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Dare @ Work [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:50 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers?


How would this affect the hardware architecture?

Dare

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@ppg.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Cheaper Servers?


> My gut tells me that another large avenue of $ will roll to MS.
> Does Bill really care?...
> Personally, I think a pc version of OS/400 is long overdue....
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 9:32 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Cheaper Servers?
>
>
> From: Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net>
> > I briefly spoke with Dr Soltis at the recent Northeast IBM Conference.
I
> > asked him to put OS/400 on a laptop to distribute to universities.  He
told
> > me that he floated the idea and nobody was interested, including COMMON.
> > Apparently, if IBM can't find demand, they're disinclined to fire up a
> > production line to create dumpster-filler.
> >
> > This may be an opportunity for us to tell Rochester that we're
interested
> in
> > a low-cost OS/400.
>
> At last COMMON I asked Frank Soltis if a laptop version would be
available.
> He said no with visible disgust. I think that the notion of a LOW-COST
OS/400
> does not sit well with IBM.
>
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