I agree. I began to learn Unix with UTS, and the experience made it easier to pick up Unix System Services. That, in turn made it easier when I installed Linux on three of our computers at home. Certainly, Linux is a huge improvement over Windows. Even my kids use it.
Linux, like Unix, is in a different league than z/OS, but that is no reason to dismiss it outright. On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 15:37:00 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Anton wrote: >>Does this type of talk work for you in Japan these days because I >>visited the University of Tokyo in 1985 and I was impressed with the way >>they did their research and the way they understood the "technical" claims >>from the American companies. > snip! > >Does anybody seriously dispute that Linux is popular? That Linux is >growing? Including the mainframe? What I am suggesting is the following: > >1. More people here should add Linux to their knowledge base -- ideally >leading efforts in your shops to implement Linux for certain projects. >Ostrich strategies do not work, IMHO. >2. Many of you are already learning Linux (in effect) and just don't know >it. USS skills are quite transferable. (And you need at least a little >bit of USS knowledge to be a competent z/OS system programmer, in all >candor.) >3. Difficulty implementing Linux is exaggerated by many in this forum, >truly. It's not zero, but it's also not the Apollo Space Program nor the >Manhattan Project. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
