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To: JDN who wrote (29739)	3/30/2000 8:50:00 AM
From: buck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Any other comments? Despite the posturing in the article, I don't think this does much to Sun. Unix has been available for mainframes for a while (I researched this back in 1990), and it hasn't made much of a dent to date. Kind of like using a thirteen-pound sledge hammer to hang a picture hook. I think this is a good way for IBM to extend the life of their mainframes, and maybe even sell a few new ones. Those "few new ones" could possibly take away a Starfire sale or two, but I bet Sun still can't build them fast enough. FWIW, the Starfire is the functional equivalent of the newer breed of IBM S/390s, IMVHO. I was chuckling over this with another old-timer a few weeks ago. We decided that if they ever get EMIF (the ability to share an IO channel amongst multiple partitions) on Starfire, we'll know that the end of the mainframe is nigh. Again. Really. This time, it's true. buck

To: JDN who wrote (29739)	3/30/2000 1:08:00 PM
From: Robert	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: Linux on IBM Mainframes The truth of the article is that 1) IBM originally never had plans to run Linux on a Mainframe. The original article was reported on /. where some people decided to put Linux on a mainframe , IN THEIR OWN TIME WITH NO CORPORATE SUPPORT, for fun. 2) IBM mainframes create VM's for all their users anyway. All the article reiterates is that a mainframe can have hundreds of users simultaenously. 3) IBM does not address the fundamental problem of a mainframe, scaleability and obsolescence. Good luck if you are a small company who wants to start small and grow big. With IBM mainframes, it is buy big or not at all.