Re: From the Comdex Rumor Department...

[mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Agreed.  I don't think IBM has any desires to take their hardware (AS/400)
and make it another player in the commodity field.  The proper positioning
would be as a guest OS.  Would people be interested if they could run both?
Maybe.  What we would really be after is the ability to run Linux
applications.....which does not necessarily mean Linux has to be ported.
Not meaning to get in an OS comparison wars but I have no desire to run
Linux itself.....as long as I can run or easily port it's applications.

It's also not a degree of can they do it but does it make sense to do it.
I cannot think of any valid money making reasons to run Linux on the
AS/400.  Am I missing something?

I think Apache is something different.  I would want to run it on an AS/400
for the same reasons I would want to run Domino on a AS/400.  Stability,
scalability, performance, integration, lower support costs, etc.  These
benefits are derived from the hardware, the OS, and/or a combination.  Now
maybe some of these things correlate to porting Linux.....





>Actually, if you port Linux over to the 400's hardware, you get Linux
>running on a PowerPC chip... which already exists.

Doesn't that make Linux on the AS/400 the answer to the question no one
asked? Who would want to pay premium AS/400 memory and DASD prices (which
are certainly more competitive that ever, but still not the commodity box
market) to run as a Linux server? what does it get you? That a nicely
configured Dell PowerEdge doesn't?

And, for that matter, doesn't Apache stand on the same ground? Where does
Apache fit as an AS/400 Web server?

Don't read a bigoted tone one way or another here, I'm really trying to
figure this stuff out.

rp





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