RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

IMHO, if the impetus for IBM to go LINUX is to cut development/maint costs
of proprietary OS's (geez, I'm sick of the nomenclature), then it seems
fairly unlikely that IBM would spend the resources to fall back into the
same perceived pit by creating an emulator for OS400 (or other any other OS)
to run on/in the LINUX OS.

Ray Shahan

"There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of
us, that is behooves none of us, to talk about the rest of us"
...Unknown...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Buck Calabro [SMTP:Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 2:20 PM
> To:   Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject:      RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???
> 
> The business case is reasonably clear: it costs real money for IBM to
> support/maintain/enhance the myriad permutations of software across
> multiple
> hardware/software platforms.  Anything they can do to reduce those costs
> will directly increase their profits.  Which, oddly enough, they exist to
> do.
> 
        <snip>

> Will Linux be the ONLY OS in two years?  Probably not.  Will it be an IBM
> push in 2 years?  It might be if they can create an emulation environment
> that will run under Linux.  zOS will be the hard one to move because of
> all
> the custom assembler stuff, but OS400 is more or less technology
> independent...
> 
> 

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