Re: ibm i development budget

[Neil Palmer <neilpalmer400mr@xxxxxxxx>]

Pat,

No offence taken.   :-)

I'd sure like to know what IBM's budget is for AIX
myself.  No - MVS isn't dead, but it sure isn't out
partying every night now either.  Like a lot of us
it's settled down in it's old age.  That's what I see
for OS/400.  Sure I'll probably end my career still
working on it, but I certainly won't be encouraging my
son to plan a career working on it.  

As to Vista being the answer to everybody's dreams - I
think you meant nightmares !   ;-)

...Neil

--- Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It was not meant as a rebuke of your article. I
> think IBM hasn't
> really decided where they might be going with the
> various systems.
>
> I also doubt that one or two people inside IBM also
> "know"
> what might happen down the road. They employ an
> awful
> lot of folks and almost nothing is decided by one
> person.
>
> I am concerned about the future of the system, as
> are all of us.
>
> I don't think it is quite as clear as folks would
> believe about the
> the demise of any system. I recall Unix being called
> a "dead"
> system about 10-15 years back.
>
> Is MVS dead ? The last I heard, it was still perking
> along
> cranking out a release ever so often. I worked on
> MVS back
> in 1974.
>
> Since the feeling is that Unix/AIX is the next
> bright thing, I would
> point out that there was at last count,  a couple
> hundred versions
> of  Unix, none being actively developed by anybody.
>
>  Since nobody actually "owns" the Unix, why would
> any company
> spend millions of  dollars "developing" it ?
>
> (I guess Bell Labs still "owns' a version)
>
> I know almost nothing about Unix and at this point
> in my life, I
> tend to believe I will skip that learning process.
>
> Maybe Unix is the answer to everybody's dreams.
> Maybe Linux is the answer to everybody's deams.
> Maybe Vista is the answer to everybody's dreams.
>
> Maybe everything you say will come to pass.
>
> I doubt that anybody on this list will live to see
> the final
> answer.
>
>
> Neil Palmer wrote:
>
> > Pat,
> >
> >
> > No, they won't kill it, they will let it slowly
> fade
> > away over the next decade or so and eventually it
> will
> > die of natural causes.  I wish it weren't true, but
> as
> > the saying goes "don't shoot the messenger".   ;-)
> >
> >
> > ...Neil



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