(reformatted) On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:23:48 -0700, Gibney, Dave <gib...@wsu.edu> wrote:
>Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:28:29 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >> > >> >Proportedly, Windows can run on z.... >> > >> But why would anyone choose to run Windows on z? Aside from: >> >> o He can afford a z, but not a PC (stranger things have >> happened). >> >> o He's titillated by the sheer irony of running notoriously >> unreliable software on outstandingly reliable hardware. >> > Because the "Window Server" Application is not available in native z >or Linux and they want the reliability of the zHardware :) Window server application? Have you demoted their operating system? And what benefit do you think that there is in doing that anyway? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
