Timothy, Open Systems is Hitachi parlance for drives formatted in FBA format and used by Linux, UNIXen, and Windows. I don't see that we need to change 10 years of convention.
BTW I thought that the term Open Systems was for those that complied with Open Systems Foundation standards, and that Open Source has little or nothing to do with the term. As for Distributed Systems as a generic term - now see me cringe. I have trouble picturing 10TB SAP application running on a SunFire E20K as a distributed system. You say tomato, I say tomato... Ron BTW Japan is closer to the Hitachi Lab than Hong Kong. If you can duck down the road and convince them, then you can convince me (GD&R) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Monday, 20 February 2006 1:37 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Disk vs Tape scenario > > Quick pet peeve alert(*): the term "open systems" as currently applied. > For example, I fail to see how a Microsoft Windows server is an "open > system" and a mainframe running Linux (an open source operating system, > after all(**)) is not. > > Could we all agree to call them "distributed systems"? Seems a much less > value-loaded term, and it happens to be more accurate. And yes, I know, > I've got a battle at my own company to have us all start using plain > language names, but I'm trying to do my part. :-) > > (*) Honest, I don't have too many. Cracking knuckles is another one -- > makes me cringe. :-) > > (**) In fact, mainframe Linux distributions contain a greater percentage > of open source code than the average X86 distribution. Linux on z is down > to just a single OCO (object code only) module: an optional tape driver. > Typical X86 distributions have many, many more OCO drivers, such as those > for Nvidia and ATI video cards, and SmartLink "Winmodems." > > - - - - - > Timothy F. Sipples > Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries > IBM Japan, Ltd. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
