On Monday, 03/17/2008 at 08:45 EDT, Jeff Savit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, I don't think one should look to Sun Microsystems for great > enthusiasm about OpenSolaris on System z as a commercial product or as > an attractive venue for running Solaris. Without being partisan - this > list is simply not the place for it - let's just observe that people who > think IBM mainframes are superior tend to be concentrated at IBM, IBM > customers and IBM partners. People working at other system vendors or > buying their products tend to hold other opinions, and should be > expected to prefer and advocate the platforms that they create or > purchase, which they think are superior. I don't think I can word it > any less adversarially than that.
Well spoken, Jeff; there's nothing at all adversarial in what you said. Everyone who makes mousetraps believes that theirs is better, while at the same time allowing that there is room for other mousetraps in certain "niche" markets. (Where "niche" is defined as "the markets I don't play in".) It's good to hear from you again. 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
