On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 10:40 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:32:50 -0600, John McKown < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >I would almost bet that they won't however because it would probably eat > >into their true z hardware sales. > > Exactly. > > >Especially if you make that machine an > >IBMi capable one. > > > Already is. We run 10 i lpars on a box much smaller than this. The power > hardware has been i capable since day 1. > I knew that the IBMi software runs on Power, but I thought it was a "special for IBMi" version. That is, if you were only going to run AIX or Linux, you could get a Power system which would not run IBMi. But I probably misunderstood what the document was saying. -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
