> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob goolsby > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:20 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: (slightly OT - Linux) Did IBM bet on the wrong OS? > > BSD would have been interesting, the environmental differences between > Berkley and Armonk. That would have been something that I would have > payed good money to watch. Matter of fact I'd still pay good > money..... >
>From the IBM viewpoint, *BSD would be superior to Linux due to the BSD license >allowing for OCO distribution. IBN, or at least the historic z systems area, >loves OCO and seems to dislike releasing source. However, from my limited >knowledge, the z/Linux effort was a "skunk works" project by a group in IBM >Germany. I don't know why they chose Linux. There already was a Linux for 370 >development going on by another group of non-IBM people. This project still >has a web page at http://linas.org/linux/i370.html . -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
