Re: Oregon DOT using Linux

From: Greg Madden <pabi@gci.net>
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 21:26:54 AKDT

On Sunday 01 May 2005 08:34 pm, Fielder George Dowding wrote:
> Alas! This is a confusing article. For example, OS/2 is not Windows.
> So I suspect there are many details left out by the Novell PR
> department writer. It does point to the power of cooperative
> behaviour. fgd.
>
> Stanley Long wrote:
> > ... legacy OS/2 system for managing driver=92s license record
> > communication statewide ...
> >
> > Oregon-DOT is [was ?? ] a "Microsoft Windows and mainframe shop"

The mainframe part is the IBM Z800, maybe switched to VM's of Suse ?=20

=46rom another blurb.
"...could use the z800 as a Linux box if it adopts the open-source=20
operating system because of virtual partitioning technology that IBM=20
ships with its zSeries mainframes.'
=2D-=20
Greg Madden
Precision Air Balance, Inc.
Phone: 907-276-0461
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