Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 12/06/2011 04:45 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Duaine Hechler wrote:
My take on the solution - is windows will never go away until all "windows" software can run "natively" within Linux.
For most business users, Windows could go away tomorrow. I've been running my business entirely on Linux for more than five years.
Then why don't they ??
I think because they don't really care. For the business it doesn't really matter if they use one or the other. There are also advantages to staying with Windows - no staff adaption/training period, availability of IT staff/externals.
That being said, then, more than likely, Linux will end up being susceptible to all the "nasties" of Windows.
_Or, the emulation software becomes the primary OS (just like IBM's) There are far more MVS-only shops than there ever were VM-installations. True - however, VM was used to support multiple VSE machines (Cheaper than moving and supporting MVS). One shop I was in, we had 5 copies of VSE running which included one for production, one for test and 3 for development - for different versions of VSE, CICS and Assembler vs COBOL versions of the same production software.
In Europe, VSE died out before my time - I've never encountered a running system.
Also, another strange fact, that VM was initially written to run VSE - as developers were writing MVS (and its predecessors)
Plus, that was before IBM came up with LPARS (Logical Partitions) in the hardware.
Yes, LPARs was used by a lot of shops that might otherwise have been running VM. I think we first got LPAR on a 3090-600S around 89-90, maybe a little earlier. Of course we had VM anyway, running in the service processor - a 4381, IIRC? Anyway, we're straying way OT. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (8.3°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org