Re: The One Percent Club

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

I gave the article a close read  and my interpretation is that the
focus of Dr Frank, and what there is of system i strategic managment,
is the system i as a partitioned platform that runs many instances of
Linux and AIX.  He refers many times to i5/OS as the partition
manager. At no time that I recall does he mention i5/OS as the thing
that encompasses ILE, RPG, single level store, DB2, ...   I dont
follow what i5/OS has to offer that the HMC on a p5 cant do in terms
of consolidating the many servers of the mega companies Soltis says
are moving to consolidate on an IBM power system.      No where in the
article did I read of any advantages of i5/OS the OS.  What about
improving single level store? Expand pointers to 64 bytes so the 16MB
segment limit can be eliminated. Currently when a user space is
restored all the pointers in the space become invalidated. That
severely limits what user spaces can be used for ( we cant create our
own objects on the system ).

I read the article as IBM giving up on i5/OS the OS and repositioning
it as a superior way to run other operation systems.

-Steve