Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:51:30 -0400
 Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Last I knew, IBM was more interested in selling services!
> ;-)
> 
> Would a port of OS/400 generate more profit for IBM? I
> have no idea. But wouldn't you really rather have a true
> low-cost iSeries machine than a Mac running OS/400?
> 

Possibly, if a low cost iSeries machine was available that
would have the power I wanted (add up all the prices for
hardware, software, support, compilers, etc and it's really
out of reach for the average joe).  

In all reality, I would rather have the option to install
it on a home built PC that used to run Linux and realized
all it was doing was firewall/router/printer/file sharing
which took 2 weeks and digging through terrible docs,
arrogant posts, RTFM google answers, distro differences,
ipchains or iptables, etc.. etc.. and realized I could do
it on windows in 10 minutes with built in and free
software, so I dumped it.  LOL!  (BTW, anyone need a nice
455mhz AMD K6 machine with Slackware 9.0?  LOL!)

I see it as a double edged sword.  Keep it proprietary and
make a lot of money in fewer transactions selling software
and hardware, or take the chances of running the OS on
different hardware and make less money with more
transactions selling only the OS.  

A boy can dream, can't he?  :)

Brad
www.bvstools.com