Re: The One Percent Club

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve wrote: "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."

WOW, that response from you came as a complete surprise to me.

On 12/18/06, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
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