RE: The One Percent Club -- MIDRANGE-L

Other than the already known suckage of WAS performance on i5/OS, is
there something in particular that you feel is lacking from the
operating system?  I guess I've always thought we've got a relatively
feature-rich OS that does the job for 99% of everyone out there.  If
it's missing something, you could always get third-party stuff or knock
on IBM's door to get it in the next release (PCR?).  But if it's pure
numbers you're looking for, you probably won't find it all the time.
It's more of a value-added OS and hardware combo.  Not much of a point
I'm making, but figured I'd get my thoughts out there.


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Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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Subject: RE: The One Percent Club


<snip>
good for IBM, not good for those running i5/OS ( no improvements planned
for i5/OS ) </snip>

Did we read the same article?

I didn't see anywhere in the link provided earlier that stated i5/OS 
would not have any more improvements.  I did see that Frank said that 
HE considered i5/OS as more of an application environment than an OS 
but that's a far cry from saying the OS wouldn't have any improvements.


Tommy, ITJungle is reporting no new release of i5/OS in 2007 and Dr
Frank in this interview talks up i5/OS as a better way to run Linux and
AIX.  I guess it does not matter much. Either the i5 matches the
price/performance of the p5 or we are done.  It is interesting that
i5/OS, AIX and Linux appear to be done feature wise while MSFT continues
to pile on the improvements to Windows. 

-Steve


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