Imagine a PC vendor shipping just one operating system with their PCs :) Linux/390 made a fairly big splash a few years ago. But it seems the community news is languishing, and if you don't make headlines once in a while, you cease to exist in the eyes of business managers. Our project manager said it today: "Virtual Linux is cool stuff, or it was". My point is, the product is maturing - we know what works and what doesn't work. The good things should be bundled and put out there so a computer generalist armed with basic knowledge can take it and make it go with minimal effort. At this point we are all diverged with highly customized implementations that basically do the same thing. If we can standardize on minidisk addresses, a configuration interface, and capture 95% commonality of what an Oracle (or any) server should provide, and optimize it, that would be a good thing. The rest of the IT world is focusing on standards, and we should be no different.
Some people might see this as "dumbing down", but in reality competition calls for a streamlined portable plug-n-play appliance, as opposed to complicated and redundant site-specific exercises. Its also our best shot at getting *supported* read-only shared Linux code. I can see all the pieces out there waiting to be put together, its just a matter of willpower (and yes, legal hurdles). David, see what you started? Ray Mrohs Energy Information Administration U.S. Department of Energy -----Original Message----- From: Alan Altmark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 11:17 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Question for Oracle shops On Wednesday, 11/02/2005 at 09:45 CST, Tom Duerbusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not only an Oracle problem/concern. Consider what would happen > if IBM picks a "perferred" Linux and bundles it with VM. Replace their > TCPIP product with IP running under Linux for one. A real DB2 running > under VM (yea) for another. But whoever they choose, will be bad news > for the other venders. (I kind of like IBM being neutral on this > on....so unlike their history.) Replace our revered stack, with its Ancestral origins, one of the Seven Wonders of the Computing World, with a Linux IP stack? Now go wash your mouth out with soap. Twice. ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
