[rescue] (Oracle Adopting Linux) is not good news,

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 10:21:54PM -0500, Al Potter wrote:
> Depends on your POV.
> 
> The serious hardware manuactures (SUN, etc) will still continue to 
> manufacture serious hardware.  Linux allows them to get out of the OS 
> business.  All they have to do (as opposed to creating and maintaining the 
> entire OS) is port the kernel to their architecture.
> 
> IBM seems to have gotten the idea...

They are claiming to have gotten some sales of zSeries machines
specifically because of Linux.
 
> I predicted this about --8-or-9-- years ago, and mostly got laughed at.  Of 
> course, one of the folks I was talking to was Bob Young of RH.....

Would love to hear more about this.

./patrick