On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:00 +0200, Marian Gasparovic wrote: > Why are mainframe people so reluctant to change ? ... > Linux is growing, it is a fact. Mainframe won several awards for being > the best hw platform for Linux. Why do we see so many posts about 'our > mainframe will be removed' ?
We installed Linux (thanks to Marist) on a 9672 well before IBM even got Linux into their collective heads. *Before* the skunkworks efforts escaped from the Boeblingen labs - and on a machine that IBMs efforts would not support. Customers telling us they do not want Linux is *their* decision. They pay the bucks, they call the game. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
