On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:03:01 -0600 Paul Gilmartin said:
>On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 10:38:50 -0800, Ray Mullins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>And z/OS isn't the only IBM mainframe operating system, and IBM isn't the
>>only mainframe player either (although it probably is in the high 90s
>>percentile of installed base).  Unisys, Groupe Bull, Fujitsu Hitachi and
>>Fujitsu-Siemens have mainframe-class hardware and OSes, too.  HP might be
>>included, depending on how you consider the soon-to-be-gone HP3000/MPE and
>>the former DEC hardware/OpenVMS.  (Paul, does STK ^W Sun support its
>>products with those other boxes?)
>>
>Sure.  I'll let the WWW speak for us:
>
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=storagetek+%22open+systems%22
>
>>Now if "we" can just make Java run better on z/Architecture.  :-D
>>
>Is it z/Architecture, or z/OS?  How's Java for Linux for z/Series?
>(Is it even available?  See -- we're not quite Solarized yet.)  Is

Yes it's available, and in my opinion, it needs improvements too.
Part of it is the z/Architecture performance.


>the stumbling block EBCDIC (which certainly causes enough problems)?

Linux of zSeries is ASCII.

>Or the z/OS load module/DLL structure?  Or LE?
>
>-- gil
/ahw

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