RE: The One Percent Club

["Chris Payne" <CPayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,
        It's simply not true, while I5/OS and AIX may be done (I have no
idea) Linux continues to improve over time.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richter,Steve
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:44 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The One Percent Club



-----Original Message-----
From: Holden Tommy [mailto:Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:30 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: The One Percent Club


<snip>
good for IBM, not good for those running i5/OS ( no improvements planned
for i5/OS ) 
</snip>

> Did we read the same article?

> I didn't see anywhere in the link provided earlier that stated i5/OS
> would not have any more improvements.  I did see that Frank said that
HE
> considered i5/OS as more of an application environment than an OS but
> that's a far cry from saying the OS wouldn't have any improvements. 

Tommy, ITJungle is reporting no new release of i5/OS in 2007 and Dr
Frank in this interview talks up i5/OS as a better way to run Linux and
AIX.  I guess it does not matter much. Either the i5 matches the
price/performance of the p5 or we are done.  It is interesting that
i5/OS, AIX and Linux appear to be done feature wise while MSFT continues
to pile on the improvements to Windows. 

-Steve