On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:05:38PM -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > Problem is that it's not helpful if you don't have a C compiler > > and a lot of > > shops that are using VM only to support Linux aren't going to license the > > C/C++ compiler just to write management apps. > There are other alternatives to the IBM C/C++ compiler... > [[ nice Dignus toolsets ]]
Yes, and they're pretty darn cool, too -- but that still doesn't change the basic equation that if it costs extra to buy it, there are a lot of places that just can't spend the money. There are even a few places where the old "if it doesn't come from IBM, it's doesn't run here" mentality still holds sway. Worse yet, these people tend to be the sites that would benefit most from the SMPAPI tools or things that the community could write for them that used those tools -- if there were an easy way to exploit them, then we're a lot closer to showing why VM and Linux together is greater than the sum of the parts. In any case, I know Alan and Chris Casey read this list. Let's let them perk on it a bit and see what pours forth. -- db
