RE: Proprietary era is over, IBM exec to say

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"And in the darkness bind them?"

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> From: jpcarr@tredegar.com [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:33 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Proprietary era is over, IBM exec to say
>

/*******************  Big Snip *******************************/

>
>
> It may be like Lord of the Rings.
>
> "One Ring to Control Them"
>
> "One OS to Control Them".        We can support Linux,   Linux can't
> support OS400.
> OS400 can support AIX,   AIX can't support OS400.
> OS400  COULD support MVS,    I bet MVS would have a hard time
> supporting
> OS400.
>
> So if there ever were a "Grand Unification"      Somewhere
> down there  I
> would be willing to bet,  you would see CPF messages.
>
> John
>
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