> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Adam Thornton > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Wine on z/Linux <snip> > > I do not buy the "sold a bill of goods" part.
Well, trying to be nice, I left out the part that the people who told our (now ex-) management were the IBM sales people who were trying to get an IFL on a z800 sold to us. > > Wine *does* allow Linux to run (some) Windows software (Exchange and > SQL Server? No idea). > > Linux on an IFL *is* "FREE!!!" (modulo support costs). And it *can* > be a useful consolidation tool for some workloads. Oh? I've never managed to find a s390x version of Linux that I can download directly from the Internet, other than CentOS. Both SuSE and RH wanted nnn dollars for a "test version" of Linux which we could only use for something like 6 months. Whereupon they expected us to stop using the software or get a service contract with them. I still cannot find anywhere that I can purchase a DVD (or CD collection) which has an s390x Linux distro on it, to run under Hercules/390. I cannot afford to download CentOS at the house. My DSL is too slow and CentOS is too big. > > The missing piece is that "Linux" in the first sentence means "Linux/ > x86" and in the second "Linux/390." > Except that the information about Linux and Wine came from the same people who were trying to get us to buy an IFL. Not exactly "transparently honest", IMO. > I think (now ex-) mangement sold THEMSELVES a bill of goods. Well, they certainly had a "desire to believe" that they could get something for nothing. TANSTAAFL! > > Adam -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
