From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:06:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080120130633.76c16d67@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4792DD22.4070902@davidnewall.com>
> It's not necessarily that simple. It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but
> for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are
> written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on top of the
> per-seat licence for UNIX. It is these systems that are most attracted
> towards SCO compatibility.
And they mostly use microfocus cobol which is available on Linux and uses
a vm is a trivial port, or they do a quick port to the fujitsu
cobol->java vm translator.
There are people in this community who deal day in and day out with
migrations. I don't hear a whisper of concern from those I deal with
about losing iBCS.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-20 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-19 4:59 Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 2:27 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 3:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 4:46 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 5:18 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 5:33 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 5:55 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-20 6:23 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 7:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-21 1:37 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 10:24 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:06 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-23 8:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-23 14:12 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-23 14:24 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-24 17:06 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-22 12:42 ` Karl Kiniger
2008-01-22 15:13 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 15:49 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-24 17:01 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:04 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 17:24 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-24 17:55 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 18:14 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-01-25 2:14 ` David Newall
2008-01-25 5:12 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-25 16:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25 2:17 ` David Newall
2008-01-24 20:37 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-25 2:16 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 16:50 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-24 17:08 ` David Newall
2008-01-22 13:20 ` Giulio
2008-01-20 13:06 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-01-20 13:43 ` David Newall
2008-01-20 13:51 ` Alan Cox
2008-01-25 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
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