Re: OMG!!! OS/2???

OK Don, now I a really confused. How in the world will a "desktop o/s" make Windows and AIX legacy systems?

Since AIX is predominantly a server, (IBM no longer sells a workstation for it) one can expect you were referring to the Windows Server versions as well, so exactly how does another Unix variant on a desktop accomplish what you are saying?

If as the article suggests, that the user interface for Linux is improved to match up with MAC or Windows 7 by using the interface from OS/2 (which was a superior desktop and server to anything out of Redmond) then it very might accomplish the task. But I still have to wonder what makes you think that AIX will become legacy with a desktop competitor?

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/14/2010 6:09 PM, Don wrote:

I wouldn't worry about OS/2...IBM's marketing will make sure it doesn't get
accepted any better the second time around than the first...

What I'm looking forward to is the desktop o/s that Oracle brings out. It
should firmly put Windows and AIX in the column of "legacy" systems... :)

DR2

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I figured the article HAD to be dated 4/1 but it was not..... Go figure.


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http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci150858
4,00.html

>Should IBM consider a return of OS/2?
>
>A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there's a
move>afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system -- revered by
>some, reviled by many --before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He
>has heard this from inside Big Blue itself.
>
>
>
>Interested constituencies would include "AS/400, and S390 users that
>love OS/2 Communications Manager, SNA [Systems Network Architecture]
>and newer LU/PU-style connectivity, even some on isolated APIPA
>[Automatic Private IP Addressing] subnets," the integrator said.



Has this "integrator" just woken from a 14 year coma?
:)


-gerald


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