Re: AS/400 R.I.P.???

["Symp" <jd.chiasson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: AS/400 R.I.P.???

From the article:

"Power4 is on schedule to ship in the second half of next year in IBM's RS/6000 Unix servers and its AS/400 servers for small and medium-size businesses running Unix or Linux. "

 

Aren't there whispers of Linux being the next (read optional) OS to be used on the AS400?

----- Original Message -----

From: Murphy, Guy

To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'

Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 2:50 PM

Subject: RE: AS/400 R.I.P.???

Check out http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2466014,00.html

Guy Murphy - FACTS system
University of Illinois
217-333-8670

-----Original Message-----
From: Schenck, Don [mailto:Don.Schenck@WL.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:23 AM
To: 'midrange-L@midrange.com'
Subject: AS/400 R.I.P.???

Read an article today about IBM's new Power4 chip. VERY impressive.

What will it be used for?

AS/400's???

According to the article, for "high end RS/6000 systems ...".

Either the AS/400 gets blown away by the RS/6000 ... OR ... the folks at IBM
REALLY botched up the opportunity to say "high end AS/400 systems ...".

-- Don