> If they ( the developers ) were trying to target a product for the Linux/390 > community, I would hope that they would not try to develop and test those > products just willy nilly even in the uncontrolled environment where they > are not getting what they think that they need. > > When we buy a product for our production systems we hope (perhaps blindly) > that the vendor produced that product on, or reasonably near, the target. Or > is Linux so smooth to allow a vendor to be able to develop and test on > Linux/Intel and then sell to Linux/390? > > I would expect to see something like Hercules engines popping up if the > users (Linux Admins / Developers) do not get the control that they want > because they think that they need it [key word think]. > > We havent even gotten to an accepted direction and already have several > flavors of Linux, both distribution and platform.
Here at home I have a LAN. I have this setuo: Dugite, K6-I/500, server Possum, PII/233, a workstation (mostly) for my wife. Numbat, Athlon 1.4. My data is all stored on Dugite. The Athlon is good for building software on. It's also good fur running Hercules. If I had a genuine S/390 round, it might still make sense to run Hercules on my Athlon and compile my S/390 programs on it. Whether I test on numbat or on the S/390 mainframe is a separate issue, and if I test on numbat then the QA folks should still use the real thing. The cost of the Athlon system unit (without disk) was comparable to the cost of a complete low-end Celeron or Duron system. -- 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!
