RE: OS/400 on a Sun unix

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Time to be wrappin' this 'un up, at least for now...  This sums up the
difficulty in marketing a computer, because the market (when looked at in
it's entirety) ranges from $3K computers to $bazillion computers...
More-or-less the same functions being performed on them, from the
Mom-and-Pop to Fortune-30, and *similar* problems to deal with.  (Both
technical and people.)  But the specific problems and resources to address
them are, obviously, entirely different between these two different extremes
of computer-users.

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adam Lang

| But getting into that level of computing, you, again, are not marketing to
| the $3000 server crowd.  Grid computing is another niche market
| and entails
| a lotmore than just "runnign on intel".
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "jt" <jt@xxxxxx>
| To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:22 AM
| Subject: RE: OS/400 on a Sun unix
|
|
| > This is where things blur, because of technologies like clustering and
| even
| > more Grid (couldn't find the link I wanted, but
| > http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/central/feature.html).  As in past,
| but
| > ESPECIALLY when Grid becomes marketable on other platforms besides z,
| there
| > is a LOTTA power in (what used to be considered) low-end.