> "Zeitler: I don't think we'd have a single product line. But we would > give customers a lot more deployment choice. We're taking our hypervisors > [software for controlling multiple operating systems at once], putting them > in microcode and letting people put multiple [operating systems] on one > environment. You could take a zSeries system and run hundreds of thousands > of Linuxes on it, and Linux could inherit some of the reliability > characteristics of this platform..."
I raised this wth Bill back when he was the AS/400 marketing guru. At the time the RS6000-AS400 technical convergence was in full swing and the AS400 group had just announced their side of the move to common hardware. This has been a goal for decades within IBM - even the venerable John Cocke worked on hardware convergence. Back then Bill pointed out that - even though the RS6000 and AS400 would in future run on 100% identical hardware - the platforms would remain distinct, as indeed they have. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
