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

...and how much spending for i5?   
 
 
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From: sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:25 PM
Subject: 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