> > The chapter was not accidentally left out. It is rare for a redbook > > to change this way. The powers that be whom effected this change > > come from a different part of IBM society. They have a different > > viewpoint. They perhaps don't understand the significance of > > the open source revolution. > > They perhaps _do_ understand that 38% of IBM's net income is from proprietary > software - which > has a gross margin of over 86%. However elegant and intellectually satisfyin > g the open source > concept is, the jury's still out on when (or whenever) it's going to start pa > ying the rent on > Armonk.
The mainframe software needs something to run on, and by offending OSS developers IBM is making them at least a little wary of helping sell IBM hardware. What software does Linux replace? By and large Unix on other hardware I'd think. From what I gather, if I buy a zSeries machine to run Linux on, I'm also likely to buy z/VM and probably some other software too. To sell me that zSeries, IBM needs all those OSS developers beavering away and not costing them as much as a brass razoo. -- Cheers John Summerfield Microsoft's most solid OS: http://www.geocities.com/rcwoolley/ Note: mail delivered to me is deemed to be intended for me, for my disposition. ============================== If you don't like being told you're wrong, be right!
