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

["alan" <steelville@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>
| Joe..
| DB2 will be around for quite awhile.
| What gets me is the 'assumptions' about the future of
computing.
| Of course, everyone in the under-developed, nee third
world nations that will burst
| upon the computer world will undoubtedly be using or want
to get LINUX...
| Who said so?, and where is that written?

Granted, not written in stone, and who knows? Not an
"assumption", it's already a movement gathering steam,
mostly against MicroScum and *nix. I lived some ten years in
Latin America. Guaranteed: they use "unregistered" software
as much as Mainland China. This is what inflates all those
figures, "five kazillion chakillion dollars lost to
piracy..". If they were forced to pay, they'd get the
alternative. The ones that really have to have the
reliability and scalability and can afford it (and know
about it--a bow to IBM Marketing there) already have the
/400/iSeries.

Of course DB2 will be around a long, long time, as will
OS/400. At least our midrange users are loyal, many of them.
I know of shops as little as a year ago that were using S36
emulation.
_________________________________
From: "James Rich" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
<Using linux does not get IBM out of the OS business.  IBM
continues to contribute to linux in many ways, including
kernel development. >

Where did I read they had 250+ engineers contributing to
GNU-Linux?

<This could happen if, as someone else suggested, the other
OS can be run on top of linux.  Similar to the way OS/400
runs on top of the LIC.>
___They have plenty of experience with OS emulation, eh?
It'd be interested how they'd add it (or "add it on"?) to
the GPL'd Linux, though.

<I don't believe a common OS is a necessary criteria for on
demand computing.>
___Good point. Just common interfaces?