Glenn,
I think you're right on the money regarding virtualization. This was
basically very clear in the press conf call I was on earlier from IBM that
really made me think that the unstated statement of direction is that the
future to IBM is on pSeries hardware with vitualization doing all the other
emulation functions that they can cram on to a pSeries box...
UH, for you pom-pom shakers out there, you should recall that I predicted
that OS/400 would very possible be come a side product of the pSeries guys,
running like we did the S/36 environment, but on a AIXL system...back oh,
say, 4-5 years ago??? I think you're going to see IBM do something very
similar to that to os/400 users...and very possibly do something similar to
what HP did to the 3000 user base... Has anyone asked what life looks like
after v6r3 ??
This Power systems Press conference call was very clearly AIX/pSeries/Blade
centric...and Oh, by they way, we did have a nice iSeries announcement
today...which got all of about 25 seconds of a 45 minute conference call...
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn Ericson
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 12:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion; 'Midrange Systems Technical
Discussion'
Subject: Re: IBM Hardware direction
Don,
you might want to read this also.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/IBM-Looks-to-PowerUp-its-Virtualizat
ion-Offerings/?kc=EWKNLENT020108STR1
IBM Looks to Power Up Its Virtualization Offerings
At 11:44 AM 2/1/2008, Don wrote:
This is interesting reading. Not totally unexpected speculation, and
there
have been folks on this board that have directly stated their wishes for
IBM
to spinoff iSeries to someone that actually cared. :-)
http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/dcc/?p=308
Don in DC
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