RE: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!

Well, that depends on their goal. Redhat is one of the major players in
business (as far as I know). So to me it would make sense to provide that
one first. But yes, their goal should be to get it working under most
Linux(s), BSD(s), and OS X.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Klement [mailto:klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Check this out. iSeries Access for Linux!!




Even if they decided to support SuSE and Turbo, there are still dozens on
Linux distros that they don't support.  Even if they made it work on every
Linux, it still wouldn't work on the BSDs, Solaris, OS X, etc, etc.

I wish IBM would release these things as open source products!   Then,
none of these compatibilty issues would be a problem.   What does it gain
IBM to make their free software proprietary?   Why limit people if they're
not going to make money on it anyway?

Or were they planning to charge for the Linux versions in the future?


On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:
>
> We hadn't tried on any other platform yet, that isn't good that they are
> hard coding it. We where thinking they where developing it for all of
their
> supported distros (RedHat, Suse, and Turbo).
>
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