[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > Gossip is that POSIX compliance was a marketing requirement. Beyond > that, it's questionable how competitively strategic IBM regards Unix > System Services.
I've mentioned before in the late 80s, senior disk engineer opening talk at annual, world-wide communication group conference with statement that the communication group was going to be responsible for demise of disk division ... communication group had corporate strategic "ownership" of everything crossing datacenter wall, protecting their dumb terminal paradigm and install base, fiercely fighting off client/server and distributed computing. disk division was seeing fall in mainframe disk sales with data fleeing to more distributed computing friendly platforms. the disk division had come up with number of solutions ... which were being constantly vetoed by the communication group. This was also factor leading up to IBM going into the red a couple years later ... and the subsequent re-organization into the 13 "baby blues" in preparation for breaking up the company (which was reversed when the board brought in Guerstner). we knew his senior vp and would get asked to help in work-arounds to the communication group ... one of which was the original POSIX support in MVS. There is separate claim about gov. bids requiring POSIXs. other activity was putting investments into other companies as part of those companies turning out distributed computing solutions for mainframe (and we were asked to periodically come in to those companies to assist with their activity). we did point out that main motivation behind POSIX was so that customers could more easily migrate to the lowest cost platform (disk division was looking to ease port of many of these applications to the mainframe ... which was one of the highest cost platforms). recent posts mentioning "demise of disk divsion" talk http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013.html#75 mainframe "selling" points http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#32 Ethernet at 40: Its daddy reveals its turbulent youth http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#57 Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#75 Still not convinced about the superiority of mainframe security vs distributed? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#76 IBM Spent A Million Dollars Renovating And Staffing Its Former CEO's Office http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013e.html#17 The Big, Bad Bit Stuffers of IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#58 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#70 How internet can evolve http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#17 Tech Time Warp of the Week: The 50-Pound Portable PC, 1977 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#34 What Makes code storage management so cool? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013h.html#10 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#2 IBM commitment to academia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013i.html#17 Should we, as an industry, STOP using the word Mainframe and find (and start using) something more up-to-date http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#44 Teletypewriter Model 33 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#49 The Original IBM Basic Beliefs for those that have never seen them http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013m.html#5 Voyager 1 just left the solar system using less computing powerthan your iP -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
