from http://www.the400group.com
This is a subscriber only article, so I'm forwarding it:
Native Linux move to AS/400 not imminent
Insider Weekly for AS/400 Managers
IBMs announced strategy of making all of their
servers fully Linux enabled will have little
impact on the AS/400 in the short term.
The AS/400 division currently has no plans to
natively support Linux, according to remarks
AS/400 gm Tom Jarosh made to business partners on
a recent conference call. Presently, the AS/400 is
able to support Linux clients and is also an
integration partner with Linux servers.
However, Jarosh did not rule out that someday the
same PASE technology that enables Unix
applications to run on the AS/400 will allow Linux
to do the same.
Linux is freeware
Linux is a Unix like freeware operating system. It
consists of open source code so that developers
have access to and can update and add features to
the operating system. It is popular for hosting
Web servers and is increasing in popularity as a
desktop OS.
Linux runs on a variety of hardware, such as Intel
and Macs. It also communicates to a variety of
networks, including TCP/IP, Novell Netware,
Microsoft Networking, and SNA. You can download
Linux now (see Web site at end of article).
"Its more a server gone desktop than a desktop
gone server," comments Jason Felice, a
Linux-AS/400 developer in his spare time.
Linux TN5250 tool available for AS/400
The efforts to integrate Linux and the AS/400
began about 18 months ago, led by a group
independent of IBM. Thus far, their efforts have
resulted in a TN5250 emulation tool. It is still
evolving and being refined, with early beta
testers reporting its prone to bugginess. They
cite benefits of fast execution and the fact that
you dont have to load features that you wont
use, resulting in a smaller footprint.
Felice says AS/400-Linux efforts are taking aim at
file transfer and the equivalent of an AS/400 ODBC
Linux driver. For more AS/400 specific Linux
information, see www.blarg.net/~mmadore; for
general Linux information, see www.linux.com.
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