On Thursday, 11/29/2007 at 03:53 EST, Anton Britz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's because zSeries and Linux in one sentence, is a contradiction of > purpose. > > I have just read the "History" of Ubuntu and Linux is the answer to "Open > Source" and no constant Upgrade fees but putting zSeries in the same > sentence, nullifies the whole justification to play with another Operating > System.
Non sequitor, Anton. The reason Linux came into being has nothing to do with the platform on which you run it. Why do you think the two are related? Selection of a Linux distro is economics (e.g. Support it myself or buy it?). Selection of platform is economics (e.g. What does it cost me to add another Linux instance in my company?). Both are economic, but with different factors. There are people living on this list who are saving their companies millions of dollars a year in IT spending with Linux on the mainframe. You may experience disbelief and some dizziness while getting used to this, but that's ok. Almost everyone who hasn't grown up with mainframes goes through this process. Have a seat, sit back, watch, learn, and grow. By the way, some people get confused because they think people buy ONE mainframe to run ONE copy of Linux and nothing else. This is both false and a dumb idea. They either run 20, 30 or 100s of copies of Linux on the mainframe to justify the expense, or they are already using the mainframe for something else (e.g. banking, insurance, health care, manufacturing, inventory, investment management, ...) and have added only a few Linux to the mix for their own [cost-jusitified] reasons. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
