Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Except IBMs software is not tied to one platform.  IBM has nothing to gain
by running OS/400 on other software.  What extra revenue would they
generate?  More DB2 sales? No.  You can just buy it and run it on Windows or
Linux anyway.  Lotus software? Nope, run it on Linux or Windows.

IBM knows they aren't going to win an OS war, so they just have their
software run on all major platforms and support it.  That way, no matter
what hardware or IOS you want, you can still buy their software.

As with Macintosh, part of the stability of the OS/400 is the fact you do
not have a near infinite amount of hardware to support.  When you know you
only have x drivers to implement, you eliminate many of your bugs and
conflicts.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: OS/400 on a Sun unix


> Sure, it wouldn't be easy, but if IBM really wants to sell
> software (like it seems they want to) then I would think it
> would be something worth looking into.
>
> Someone get the master on the horn.  ;)