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My guess is the i5/OS installation programs check the target hardware's model information in firmware (ROM) and enforce these rules. Apparently IBM does not want you to buy a p5 for primarily i5/OS use. When the zSeries joins the power family, you can expect similar limitations for cross "series" usage with that platform. As long as hardware sales are part of each business unit's revenues it will probably stay this way (separate series) despite the machines physically similar or identical. Would Rochester be better of as an software and service provider alone ? Probably not. Keith Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
Seriously what's the difference? Can anyone definitively say that you can't (or can) load i5/OS on any 5xx model p5 or load AIX on any 5xx series i5? I took a plant tour at IBM Rochester yesterday and the tour guide specifically said that there was no way to tell an i5 from a p5 until the cover was put on. Later I asked one of the engineers and she said that other than licensing and support issues she didn't know why it wouldn't work. A thread earlier this week suggested that i5/OS could only run on p5 in a "limited fashion" and it would cost "a GAZILLION dollars." Does anyone really know?
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