It was not meant as a rebuke of your article. I think IBM hasn't
really decided where they might be going with the various systems.
I also doubt that one or two people inside IBM also "know"
what might happen down the road. They employ an awful
lot of folks and almost nothing is decided by one person.
I am concerned about the future of the system, as are all of us.
I don't think it is quite as clear as folks would believe about the
the demise of any system. I recall Unix being called a "dead"
system about 10-15 years back.
Is MVS dead ? The last I heard, it was still perking along
cranking out a release ever so often. I worked on MVS back
in 1974.
Since the feeling is that Unix/AIX is the next bright thing, I would
point out that there was at last count, a couple hundred versions
of Unix, none being actively developed by anybody.
Since nobody actually "owns" the Unix, why would any company
spend millions of dollars "developing" it ?
(I guess Bell Labs still "owns' a version)
I know almost nothing about Unix and at this point in my life, I
tend to believe I will skip that learning process.
Maybe Unix is the answer to everybody's dreams.
Maybe Linux is the answer to everybody's deams.
Maybe Vista is the answer to everybody's dreams.
Maybe everything you say will come to pass.
I doubt that anybody on this list will live to see the final
answer.
Neil Palmer wrote:
Pat,
No, they won't kill it, they will let it slowly fade
away over the next decade or so and eventually it will
die of natural causes. I wish it weren't true, but as
the saying goes "don't shoot the messenger". ;-)
...Neil
midrange.com
