Re: OMG!!! OS/2???

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK Don, now I a really confused.  How in the world will a "desktop o/s" 
make Windows and AIX legacy systems?

Since AIX is predominantly a server, (IBM no longer sells a workstation 
for it) one can expect you were referring to the Windows Server versions 
as well, so exactly how does another Unix variant on a desktop 
accomplish what you are saying?

If as the article suggests, that the user interface for Linux is 
improved to match up with MAC or Windows 7 by using the interface from 
OS/2 (which was a superior desktop and server to anything out of 
Redmond) then it very might accomplish the task.  But I still have to 
wonder what makes you think that AIX will become legacy with a desktop 
competitor?

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/14/2010 6:09 PM, Don wrote:
> I wouldn't worry about OS/2...IBM's marketing will make sure it doesn't get
> accepted any better the second time around than the first...
>
> What I'm looking forward to is the desktop o/s that Oracle brings out.  It
> should firmly put Windows and AIX in the column of "legacy" systems... :)
>
> DR2
>
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> I figured the article HAD to be dated 4/1 but it was not.....  Go figure.
>
>
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> http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci150858
> 4,00.html
>
>   >Should IBM consider a return of OS/2?
>   >
>   >A systems integrator close to the computing giant swears there's a
> move>afoot inside IBM to reintroduce the operating system -- revered by
>   >some, reviled by many --before it faded out more than 10 years ago. He
>   >has heard this from inside Big Blue itself.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >Interested constituencies would include "AS/400, and S390 users that
>   >love OS/2 Communications Manager, SNA [Systems Network Architecture]
>   >and newer LU/PU-style connectivity, even some on isolated APIPA
>   >[Automatic Private IP Addressing] subnets," the integrator said.
>
>
>
> Has this "integrator" just woken from a 14 year coma?
> :)
>
>
> -gerald
>
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