Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Jon Brock wrote:
Not being an OS/2 aficianado, I don't have much of a reaction to the
news, but I am curious as to what IBM will run on our zBox HMC. I
would imagine some flavor of Linux. Anybody know?
IBM is dropping standard support for Warp 4 and Warp Server for
eBusiness (aka Warp 5). Support contracts are always available. No doubt
any embedded systems that use OS/2 will engage IBM support via special
contract. In the case of mainframe peripherals and attached devices,
it's IBM paying IBM. Just shuffling money around.
Not so simple. IBM delivers PCs with OS/2. These are "regular' PC's, so
year after year (month?) they have larger disk, new interfaces (USB,
AGP, PCI-X to nam a few), new graphic cards etc. All that staff requires
new device drivers, sometimes code debugging (or extending), etc. It is
also possible to detect bug which must be fixed. It HAVE TO BE
MAINTAINED.It is a cost, IMHO big cost. When no money is earned, with
except of "internal income" it becomes a problem.
Money shuffling around is inside of IBM, but as an effect WE PAY THIS
money when buying new z/Series equipment. The more exotic (less copies
sold in the world) system, the more expensive it is.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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