Hi Mark Thanks for your thoughtful comments - what you say makes good sense.
>I'll try to give you a better answer later. Any further thoughts you have would be most welcome - thanks. We're canvassing our newsletter lists (about 12,000 people in all, mostly in the enterprise systems sector, though not all technical). Until the results are in, we're reserving judgment. Best wishes Chris At 6:30 pm -0500 29/10/2002, Post, Mark K wrote: >Chris, > >I've been thinking about this question ever since you posed it. I have to >say that I'm not convinced there's 40 pages a month worth of stuff to say >about Linux/390. A lot of the problems that get "solved" here are >repetitions of ones that come up over and over again. The number of new >ones that we see in a given month is relatively low. > >Having said that, I would really like to see something like this happen, as >I think it would get the information out to a much broader audience. > >I don't think you're going to find too much in the way of "user >modifications/extensions." I for one am too busy just trying to get things >working as distributed. I don't have the time to think about trying to mess >with adding/modifying functionality. > >I think you might have a chance at doing something good if you could get >companies that have implemented Linux/390 in production to talk about it for >publication. The few who have been willing have been covered to death. I >and I believe others would like to hear about the ones that haven't spoken >up so far. > >I'll try to give you a better answer later. > >Mark Post ____________________________________________________________ Xephon UK 27-35 London Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1JL Direct phone 01635 33798 (01144 1635 33798 from USA) Fax 01635 38345 (01144 1635 38345 from USA) ____________________________________________________________ 'Enterprise IS News' - free weekly e-mail newsletter. Sign up here: http://www.xephon.com/lists ____________________________________________________________
