On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Richard Gasiorowski wrote: > I must be missing something. My original question was does IBM have an > LX86 product for zLinux. The answer is no. So are you other vendors > saying you have something that works or not. I am not talking windows > servers- Linux servers. Personally I am surprsied that IBM presents > zLinux as a platform to migrate many small linux x86 servers. It also > states that the system p competes with the Unix large Suns and HP. Then > turns around and makes a product for the system p to address a need which > zlinux could use. Very strategic and logical thinking. No wonder they no > longer use THINK as their motto.
>From what I understand of how IBM divisons work, this is considered normal. The System p people will attempt to take business from the System z people and vice versa. It is not one big happy family. I will grant that perhaps the p people would be more likely to go after HP or Intel markets, but that is because that AIX is closer to Linux or HP-UX, than z/OS, so it is an easier sale. But the p people will compete with the z people over a possible Linux account. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
