[Info-vax] IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up

[MG]

On 8-10-2011 19:34, Paul Sture wrote:
> I am not so sure about that.  IBM were doing mainframe OS virtualization
> decades ago.

Isn't that mostly on similar mainframe?  (E.g. legacy OS/360, OS/370,
OS/380, OS/MVS and so forth for OS/400, iSeries, i5, System i and
the rest, with the 'pars').  At least, I haven't heard of IBM offering
these platforms on, say, IBM "x" (x86/-64) or whatever systems.  Also
the IBM "p" (PowerPC/POWER) systems are not capable of simply running
"i" things, not without a complete firmware overhaul.

IBM's switch from CISC to RISC was comparable to when DEC ported VMS
from VAX to Alpha, so no big difference there.  In fact, Compaq/HP took
it even further by going to IPF/IA-64.

  - MG