Novell and Red Hat did that at the encouragement of IBM, i.e., they're no longer paying them to produce a 31-bit platform for the mainframe. Hence, lower costs.
The IBM developers at some point will stop testing changes on 31-bit systems. No QA, lower costs, etc., etc. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Perry Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 12:21 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES9 out of support? Post, Mark K wrote: > Ihno and Hannes have already addressed the support question. In terms > of SLES10, as discussed in this list, yes it is 64-bit only. IBM sees > that most of its customers have upgraded to zSeries machines, so they > wanted to cut the cost of supporting the 31-bit versions of the code > they maintain. For those of us that don't have a bunch of zSeries > machines laying around, that means we're effectively cut off from using > SLES10 and RHEL5 and above. Which leaves Debian/390 and Slack/390, of > course (or Hercules), but still... Sigh. > > > Mark Post > As Carsten has posted before; IBM still develops for s390, it is Redhat and Novel that have "cut the cost of supporting the 31-bit versions of the code they maintain." Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
