Re: Huge Planned Linux Migration Put On Hold!

From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/24/05


Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:08:17 -0800

On 24 Mar 2005 13:22:19 -0800, someone posing as Richard Trouser donned
fireproof bloomers and chiseled in the wall:

> You may never get fired for buying IBM but you can certainly get fired
> for suggesting Linux.

Um, they're kind of one in the same these days, since IBM is touting RHE or
SLES on their zOS machines. We're putting SLES on one of the partitions of
our new Z-series server.

I suppose I shouldn't feed the trolls, but I was bored for a minute...

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