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Re: IBM will spend $100 million over the next five years tomake the mainframe easier to use

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Cunningham" <MCUNNING@xxxxxxx>
Why don't they just port OS/400 to the z platform? That would be a lot cheaper and get the same results. 

Mike:
1) Over the last three years I have heard IBM'ers hint that the mainframe will be assimilated into the Power product line. From a hardware perspective, this makes a lot of sense - they can consolidate manufacturing of the z, p, and i boxes.
2) AFAIK, the OS/400 - i5/OS instruction set is a SUPERSET of the mainframe instruction set, thus making it easier to port MVS to the i5 rather than the other way around. 

- sjl

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