RE: NT vs AS/400

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxx>]

John [JT  or JP)

When you reference SLIC,do You mean PLIC for LPAR on  AS400 that supports hypervisor ?
        Glenn
At 07:40 AM 06/03/2001 -0400, jt wrote:

> John, et al
>
> FWIW.  Here is an interview with Mr. Zeitler:
> http://www.sellingeserver.com/artarchive/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewarticle&Co
> ntentID=355
>
> To oversimplify, as head of the Server Group, he ultimately determines
> the
> fate of the iSeries.  About half-way into the interview, he
> discusses
> running multiple OS and the emergence of a "hypervisor control
> layer, not
> unlike the slick layer on the AS/400".
>
> jt
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:37 PM
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> Subject: Re: NT vs AS/400
>
>
>
> John T. said;
> >John, I know you as a tireless champion of this platform. I've read
> your
> >comments on this list, and on many different forums across the net.
> I
> >suspect that you're one of the ones who won't let go of that black
> box in
> >the corner unless they pry it from your cold, dead fingers. :) 
> I respect
> >that, and even admire it to a certain degree, but I don't share your
> level
> >of commitment. The reason for that is because I don't see IBM sharing
> your
> >level of commitment. At best, they've been sending mixed signals for
> a
> long
> >time now.
>
> John, et al
>
> I do what I where I can,  As Bob Tipton did in his way.  
> As I said before,
> I can't argue with your logic John, Nor can I argue with your
> conclusions
> from a pragmatist's perspective.  I understand them, and appreciate
> them.
> And Yes,  Corporate IBM (not Rochester) does indeed seem to want a
> simple
> world of Linux and Win2000.  There is certainly more money in
> service
> selling them(For Global Services) than selling an iSeries.
>
> I think IBM is hearing your points too(at least part of IBM).  The
> sad part
> is that we DON'T know IBM's 5 or 10 year plan.  We don't know if
> eServer is
> phaseI of the uServer machine.  The PowerPC seems to be doing
> well.  At
> this point it seems to be doing better than Intel's attempts at 64bits
> (and
> everyone else's).   I know,  that's PowerPC not
> OS/400.
>
> It may not be the future, but a possible future,  The PowerPC can
> run
> Linux,  OS/400, AIX, and it could run Win(if MS wanted to do the
> port and
> hedge it's bet against Intel's follies and Linux's rise).
> I believe that it could be technologically possible to even run MVS on
> the
> S-Star PowerPC.
>
> Wouldn't it be something if OS/400 was the controlling partition on
> a
> uServer that runs all of them?
>
> Well....taking my rose colored idealist's glasses off,  Yes, I will
> morn
> the day if your conclusions come into reality.  and Yes,  I
> will fight the
> fight till then(my fingers are cold but not quite dead yet :-) ).
>
> However make no mistake that I am listening to you John, and
> appreciate
> that you saying it.
>
> Respectfully
> John Carr
>
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