> At one time IBM offered a product called AIX/ESA that did just that. I was > the admin for it when we ran it. At the time it wasn't all that popular so > IBM > discontinued it.
Self-inflicted wound. It was often violently incompatible with any other Unix out there at the time, and even IBM didn't release a lot of applications for it. It was also *really* expensive in a time when the discrete systems came with free licenses for the vendor's OS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
