>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 8:18 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Yes, I am playing devil's advocate here, but I am concerned that we are > letting the fact that Linux now runs on z/VM color our approaches to > solving these types of problems....not every problem with z/VM can or > should be solved by doing something on Linux. this is especially true > with adding new function to the VM TCP/IP stack....almost all of the > clients I work with want to see IBM add new functionality to the VM > stack (e.g., better support for IPv6) by simply updating the existing > TCP/IP code; they do not want to have to purchase and install another > o/s (here Linux) simply to get some functions that should be provided in > the base. -snip-
Based on conversations I've had with various IBMers, I suspect your clients are going to be increasingly disappointed. Certain parts of IBM have discovered that for the various mainframe OSes they maintain, it's easier, cheaper, faster to develop something they want for more than one of their OSes _once_, on Linux, and then write OS-specific interfaces to it. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
