An interesting post from Anura. AIX is great technology - but it would be better for IBM and its customers to move more swiftly to a standard open platform. The post for me is particularly poignant because I have been working on half dozen projects to remove SNA and its associated outdated FEP (x.25) technology. FEPs are shortly no longer supported by IBM. The standard solution seems to be move the connection to TCPIP or wrap it using Enterprise Extender...
from the post:
I have seen IBM hedging its bets too many times. And right now, at least to me, that is what IBM is doing with Linux.
IBM is hedging its bets, and at the same time still trying to indulge in its lop-sided vendetta against Microsoft for the great OS/2 scam. What IBM is doing with Linux is only slightly different to what it did in the past with OSI, ATM and even TCP/IP. AIX is what SNA used to be, and you can pick whether you want to equate Linux to OSI or TCP/IP. IBM in the end only abandoned SNA when TCP/IP, thanks to the Web, became a given.
Well it is time for us to tell IBM that Linux should also be a given.
Posted by Anthony at August 5, 2005 05:58 PM