Re: OS400 vs AIX

<Roy Luce>
Not a switch; more of an extension.

A multi-plant client, running the application, supports all their US plants and distribution locations off a single iSeries. Their Canadian operations would like to use my application but they run AIX, the VARNET application, and the Progress DB.
</Roy Luce>

... OS/400 (and all compatible operating systems, renamed every few years)
are running on small kernel (called machine interface) and this is running
on the same hardware, AIX is running on. One machine could have AIX
partitions and AS/400 (or how it might be named today) partitions running at
the same time - but: It's all IBM and you would have to buy an OS/400
license for this and IBM decides wether it would sell for your AIX hardware.
Your RPG Software could run on such a partition with no changes, as it would
run on every box selled as AS/400 (or how it might be named today).
Porting your RPG application to AIX would be near to impossible, you would
have to rewrite all in another language.
One correction to ArdGate: using ArdGate you could access all JDBC capable
databases with all SQL interfaces of AS/400 (or how it might be named
today) - native RPG/COBOL I/O is not supported.

D*B