I too wish IBM would push Linux harder internally .. I've been running Ubuntu with the IBM 'layers' on my laptop and don't find anything I can't do. One difference is the AGN Dialer.. Windows still offers modem support and callin numbers last time I looked -- but on Linux - you strictly use the 'existing connection'. WebSphere Everyplace was abandoned as far as I know.. it was cool.. but it also had security issues - I remember suspending my laptop and still being connected when I resumed with a new IP address.. which sounds neat but isn't secure.
I use Linux on all my personal and work machines.. and am very happy. I still do keep a Windows partition around and some Windows virtual machines for the rare times I have to use it.. which may be why the push to Linux within IBM isn't done with more force. If we're going to have an MS license for 'just in case' -- then there's no incentive to move off of it for most people. Staying compatible with our clients is definitely a factor too. <shrug> I do think it's great how IBM has allowed us to expand beyond the c4eb install (which was/is fedora based?). I like Debian and being able to use Ubuntu and point to IBM repositories for the extra stuff is great.. Scott Rohling On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:01 AM, John Campbell <soup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ward, Mike S wrote: > > Neale Ferguson in an earlier email alluded to being able to run windows > > in a zVM environment. Why don't you install a windows server under zVM > > and run it there? > > Never forget that running Windows under Bochs under Linux under z/VM > was merely a way of implementing the "Big Blue Screen of Death". > > It is, perhaps, fortunate that the x86 instruction set doesn't run > natively on the zSeries architecture... and, I think, IBM learned its > lesson back in the days of OS|2 and WINOS2; I am surprised, however, > that IBM didn't get more agressive deploying the Linux C4EB distro > internally. (Going from the "Dialer" to "WebSphereEveryplace" was a > *vast* jump in accessin the VPN.) > > Post-IBM I've been working in companies that have been all too > thoroughly penetrated by MicroSoft and Windows... though still holding > onto XP. That being said, almost all of the servers I currently deal > with are running Solaris or Linux. > > -soup > > -- > John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot > com > MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
