Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: General LINUX Question
Bruce, That's a big question. Certainly you're unlikely to find VisualBasic on Linux or Linux/390. Microsoft has been understandably reluctant to make their development tools available for an Operating System that they view as a significant threat to their own. The more popular languages that I know of on Linux/390 are (in no particular order): C/C++ Java Objective C Fortran COBOL (from a couple of commercial sources) Pascal Python Perl Guile REXX LISP I'm sure there are others. Your networking folks fear for their jobs, whether rightly or wrongly. They've probably tied themselves to being Microsoft certified and won't or can't envision themselves being otherwise. You'll probably never overcome that. All you can do is point to the vast body of information out there that refutes their arguments. This will take time and lots of patience. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Fry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: General LINUX Question Anyone, We're researching the opportunity of server consolidation through the investment of LINUX images on our mainframe. Is anyone aware of compiler limitations concerning programming languages, or anything at all between Microsoft or Unix environments to LINUX? Several members of our Network team are standing firmly in the ear of management exclaiming that LINUX is something of a toy or IBM cash cow that will not perform up to Microsoft or Unix standards. Bruce Fry
