If this really was a mainframe, then the thieves essentially just got the CPU and no sensitive data was taken. Unlike a Win32 machine, a mainframe does NOT have any data (beyond configuration information) stored inside the box. All data exists on external DASD or tape devices. Unless the thieves wheeled those out, too, they didn't get anything sensitive.
IBM has more industrial strength operating systems in it's portfolio than any other company on the planet. To suggest that the ONLY way for them to make Linux more robust would be to hijack Unix code is so absurd it's beyond ludicrous!!
Is SCO so ignorant as to think AIX is the ONLY operating system IBM has? IBM has probably FORGOTTEN more about Operating System design than most companies will ever know! Their OS/390 systems power Fortune 500 companies 24x7, with 99.9999999% uptime, processing hundreds of millions of transactions a SECOND!! SCO doesn't have a snowflake's chance in hell of making their allegations stick.
And the professor could make a programmable microwave oven. If only he could figure out how to use all of those trees to make something they could use to get off that island. Hmmmmmmmmm...
You're a little confused in regards to Buffy. UPN had already picked up the rights to Buffy after a long and BITTER dispute. I look at the WB as saying "Okay, you have your show... but try to wiggle out of THIS ending!!"
After 21:00 EST on Friday, March 21 I no longer have a reason to tune in the Sci-Fi channel. I refuse to watch a once good network degenerate into a goofy "Reality Channel" as they seem to be headed. I wonder if I can have my cable system unsubscribe me from a free channel??
Spoken like a true ignoramous who thinks all science fiction sprung from Star Trek! The two are about as similar as milk and Sputnik! Please think before posting such uninformed drek or you'll put your ignorance up on display for all! Sheesh!!
eComStation is a VAR version of OS/2 Warp. It uses the OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness (WSeB) kernal (which IBM introduced to the desktop version of OS/2 with FixPack 13) along with the Journaled File System (JFS) and Logical Volume Manager. It is also bundled with a "Mess O' Apps" such as Lotus SmartSuite 1.6 for OS/2 *AND* StarOffice for OS/2. It also contains some WPS customizations and a network-managed client/network manager tool called "WiseMachine."
Compatibility between OS/2 and eComStation is a non-issue. eComStation is a superset of IBM's OS/2.
We learned NOTHING at all from the gas crises of the late 70's. Look out on the road and you see nothing but big, wasteful, gas guzzling SUV's that get WORSE mileage than any of the big Detroit iron people used to drive back then. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Me? I just ride by on my motorcycle, getting over 50 mpg at a steady 75 mph and (in Eddie Murphy's words) "Laugh mah muthuhfuggin head off!"
It is, isn't it? Because they failed to toe the Microsoft party line, they went belly-up. And there are STILL some ignorant types out there that insist Microsoft does not hold an unhealthy monopoly over the industry!!
Not just Amiga! EVERY platform that IBM produces uses REXX (OS/390, OS/400, AIX, OS/2, even PC DOS 7.0). It's also available for every other platform on the planet (it's even free for Linux).
I'm tired of hearing about this video game/violence nonsense!! The next group that publishes another one of these idiotic reports, I'm gonna frag BIG TIME!(As soon as I finish the current level of Duke Nukem 3D, that is...)
Yeah, right. Been there, done that. IBM is fully committed to Linux. IBM is fully committed to OpenDoc. IBM is fully committed to Taligent. IBM is fully committed to the Mach microkernal. IBM is fully committed to CORBA. If you REALLY believe this, you should be fully committed. IBM talks out of all sides of it's mouth!
My favorite line was the one in which he states "Customers want an OS tested against all applications." There are only a couple of things which I can conclude from that statement:
1) Only Microsoft writes applications. Software from other vendors must not count as applications.
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Bill Gates is tired of being the most despised human being in IT, so he put up Darl as the new "Whipping Boy." It seems to be working! :-P
If this really was a mainframe, then the thieves essentially just got the CPU and no sensitive data was taken. Unlike a Win32 machine, a mainframe does NOT have any data (beyond configuration information) stored inside the box. All data exists on external DASD or tape devices. Unless the thieves wheeled those out, too, they didn't get anything sensitive.
OS/390
VM/ESA
z/OS
OS/400
IBM has more industrial strength operating systems in it's portfolio than any other company on the planet. To suggest that the ONLY way for them to make Linux more robust would be to hijack Unix code is so absurd it's beyond ludicrous!!
Jaime Cruz
Is SCO so ignorant as to think AIX is the ONLY operating system IBM has? IBM has probably FORGOTTEN more about Operating System design than most companies will ever know! Their OS/390 systems power Fortune 500 companies 24x7, with 99.9999999% uptime, processing hundreds of millions of transactions a SECOND!! SCO doesn't have a snowflake's chance in hell of making their allegations stick.
Jaime Cruz
And the professor could make a programmable microwave oven. If only he could figure out how to use all of those trees to make something they could use to get off that island. Hmmmmmmmmm...
You're a little confused in regards to Buffy. UPN had already picked up the rights to Buffy after a long and BITTER dispute. I look at the WB as saying "Okay, you have your show... but try to wiggle out of THIS ending!!"
Jaime
After 21:00 EST on Friday, March 21 I no longer have a reason to tune in the Sci-Fi channel. I refuse to watch a once good network degenerate into a goofy "Reality Channel" as they seem to be headed. I wonder if I can have my cable system unsubscribe me from a free channel??
Jaime
Spoken like a true ignoramous who thinks all science fiction sprung from Star Trek! The two are about as similar as milk and Sputnik! Please think before posting such uninformed drek or you'll put your ignorance up on display for all! Sheesh!!
Not entirely true. Check the Changelogs. The Odin code is updated with the WINE code on a fairly regular basis.
You forgot to mention that a LOT of Odin's code comes from the WINE project...
eComStation is a VAR version of OS/2 Warp. It uses the OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness (WSeB) kernal (which IBM introduced to the desktop version of OS/2 with FixPack 13) along with the Journaled File System (JFS) and Logical Volume Manager. It is also bundled with a "Mess O' Apps" such as Lotus SmartSuite 1.6 for OS/2 *AND* StarOffice for OS/2. It also contains some WPS customizations and a network-managed client/network manager tool called "WiseMachine."
Compatibility between OS/2 and eComStation is a non-issue. eComStation is a superset of IBM's OS/2.
We learned NOTHING at all from the gas crises of the late 70's. Look out on the road and you see nothing but big, wasteful, gas guzzling SUV's that get WORSE mileage than any of the big Detroit iron people used to drive back then. Those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it. Me? I just ride by on my motorcycle, getting over 50 mpg at a steady 75 mph and (in Eddie Murphy's words) "Laugh mah muthuhfuggin head off!"
Bust up the bastards NOW!
Not just Amiga! EVERY platform that IBM produces uses REXX (OS/390, OS/400, AIX, OS/2, even PC DOS 7.0). It's also available for every other platform on the planet (it's even free for Linux).
Still love Michael Cowlishaw's doggy REXX!
I'm tired of hearing about this video game/violence nonsense!! The next group that publishes another one of these idiotic reports, I'm gonna frag BIG TIME! (As soon as I finish the current level of Duke Nukem 3D, that is...)
Yeah, right. Been there, done that. IBM is fully committed to Linux. IBM is fully committed to OpenDoc. IBM is fully committed to Taligent. IBM is fully committed to the Mach microkernal. IBM is fully committed to CORBA. If you REALLY believe this, you should be fully committed. IBM talks out of all sides of it's mouth!
Are you saying Microsoft has credibility? That's almost as unbelievable as the Mindcraft "study!"
My favorite line was the one in which he states "Customers want an OS tested against all applications." There are only a couple of things which I can conclude from that statement:
1) Only Microsoft writes applications. Software from other vendors must not count as applications.
2) Bill Gates is an idiot.
3) Bill Gates thinks we're all idiots.
Your choice.