Y'know, about 12-13 years ago, IBM had that funky "e" drawn up for "e-business", trying to sell a "computing utility".. the next generation Universal Server Farm.
Oddly enough, the utility IBM envisioned is partially implemented as "the cloud"... and IBM didn't get it's marque into it, did they? Way back before being caught in the RIFtide of 2007, there had been a common philosophy of "not one penny to be spent for infrastructure systems" despite having to get switches and the like. Somehow that philosophy might have hurt IBM's chances of penetrating this market. -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/
