RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)

I think you have to separate what we've classically thought of as "the
AS/400" into two parts, the operating system and environment (OS/400) and
the hardware.

I have no doubt that IBM will continue to make the hardware that is
currently the AS/400, after all it's the same hardware as a pSeries already.
I think you will, however, see a blending of the iSeries and pSeries to the
point that they aren't two platforms from a MARKETING view but rather one
hardware platform with two (or more...) operating systems available. Really
no different from an Intel box that you can run Linux, W2K, FreeBSD,
Solaris, etc. on.

We can no longer think of "our AS/400" as something that is both hardware
and software, we need to move on to thinking about "our OS/400".

-Walden

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Copyright (C) 2002 - Walden H. Leverich III

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Birnbaum [mailto:gbirnba@rei.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 16:24
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: RE: The Future of the AS/400 (was Re: Developer Lease to 1.75%????)


More proof of the commitment to the iSeries/AS400 is what I consider the
most significant part of the 4/29 announcements:  The Statement of Direction
that iSeries and pSeries will run on convergent technology and that within
two years you will be able to order a platform that can run OS/400 and also
native AIX in a partition managed by a hypervisor for the hardware
resources.  Shops that have big investments in both platforms will have all
sorts of options......  I can't wait!

Glenn Birnbaum
REI

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