On 13 Oct 2009 14:20:58 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) wrote:
>I'd say that, to me, it seems that IBM "likes" AIX and Linux. >The iSeries people complain the same way that we do about IBM >not doing much to encourage people to adopt the i. I don't know >any AIX people, but it wouldn't really surprise me to learn that IBM >would generally prefer Linux because it costs them much less to >develop and support it. FSF basically enhances and supports the >non-kernel portion and various other groups support the kernel. >IBM only needs to support the IBM specific portions of the kernel, >not the entire thing. That direction could also be useful in selling upgrades to users of data warehouses and other large databases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
