Re: COMMON, San Antonio, Linux Focus

Don,

At LinuxWorld in July, the main IBM booth was the first on the left as you 
entered the main expo area.  As you entered the main IBM booth, the first 
platform on the left was iSeries.  The Rochester team had Erwin Earley there 
as well for the iSeries Linux piece.  There was plenty of iSeries expertise 
in that area.  IMHO, it does not get any better than that for iSeries 
exposure with Linux.

The zSeries booth had MUCH less traffic than the Main IBM booth just because 
where they were located.

Will be creating a partition on the 870 for Linux this weekend.  Will be 
running up SuSe Linux in the next couple of weeks.

Regards,


Mike Shaw

> 
> 
> Jim,
> 
> Agreed.  But, I submit that certifications and systems capabilities don't
> sell a system, MARKETING does...
> 
> I was pleasantly amused by Mike Shaws report from the SFO LW this
> summer...:)
> 
> Don in DC
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 JOberholtzer@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> > this is just fascinating.  When I was at linuxworld at Javitts last
> > Jan/Feb, IBM was telling the folks in the expo NOT to use linux on
> > iSeries, but to use zSeries instead....they didn't think the iSeries linux
> > implementation was good enough...
> > </snip>
> >
> > There are many constituencies inside IBM that are as loyal to the
> > architecture they work on as we are to OS/400 and the iSeries.  The iSeries
> > implementation of Linux ( I have done it several times, and am Certified by
> > IBM as Systems Expert, iSeries LPAR technical Solutions and iSeries Linux
> > Technical Solutions)  is every bit as robust and in several cases superior

> > to the zSeries or pSeries implementation.  Remember the "i" stands for
> > integrated.  The other implementations require hardware etc, iSeries does
> > not.  Just some memory, processor and a little network storage area to put
> > it up.
> >
> > In short, iSeries rules.......!!!!!!!!!!
> >
> >
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> > Senior Solutions Architect
> > Computech Resources, Inc.
> > Phone:  262/785-8111
> > Cell:      414/416-0840
> > Fax:      262/785-8107
> >
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