RE: LINUX is the "one" ? .... Comments???

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ray said:

>IMHO, if the impetus for IBM to go LINUX is to cut 
>development/maint costs of proprietary OS's (geez, 
>I'm sick of the nomenclature), then it seems
>fairly unlikely that IBM would spend the resources 
>to fall back into the same perceived pit by creating 
>an emulator for OS400 (or other any other OS)
>to run on/in the LINUX OS.

Good point Ray.  The savings comes from being able to write all the
emulators with a single set of development tools, and targeted to a single
hardware/software platform.  Stretch the imagination and envision OS/400 as
a Java application...  Seems bizarre and impossible but technology is a
wonderful thing.  I've learnt that the improbable seems to happen with some
regularity in this business.
  --buck