> 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.
Laudable in principle, but what are the results? How many zSeries machines have been sold solely to run Linux? Is it three yet - out of 1,500 or so zSeries shipped? > To sell me that zSeries, IBM needs all those OSS developers beavering > away and not costing them as much as a brass razoo. Linux is costing IBM money - there are IBMers developing for it and IBM has released open source code. To quote Irving Wladawsky-Berger: "IBMers are geeks bearing gifts". I don't doubt that Linux has a great future. I'm not sure it has a terrific present. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
