Re: Proprietary era is over, IBM exec to say

[Neil Palmer <neilp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not cannibalize, maybe milk ?   ;-)

...Neil





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From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
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Subject: Re: Proprietary era is over, IBM exec to say


> And IBM will be hard pressed to tell their customers to rewrite
everything
> on OS/400 and OS/390 to run on Linux ... IBM has their business in that
> market because they can be safe to assume their apps will not need
moding
> every 3 years.
>
> Even if they say Linux on the iSeries is the route they are going, I
don't
> think they said they are going to cannibalize their current user base.
>
> Adam Lang