Poll-out your opinion .

what are the specs for the AS/400 IBM?, I haven't heard of it.

Basically AS/400 is a midrange server

Their specs can be put into 3 categories :

Small business and workgroups

Software
OS/400, DB2, security, workload management,
netwoking, graphical operations

Processors
1-4

Processor performance
150 - 3700 CPW

Memory (maximum)
32 GB

Disk (maximum)
8 TB


Medium business

Software
OS/400, DB2, security, workload management,
networking, graphical operations

Processors
1-8

Processor performance
370 - 7350 CPW

Memory (maximum)
64 GB

Disk (maximum)
22 TB


Large business

Software
OS/400, DB2, security, workload management,
networking, graphical operations

Processors
8-32

Processor performance
9000 - 37400 CPW

Memory (maximum)
256 GB

Disk (maximum)
72 TB

Howdy,
For those who just have to know - how about this
http://www-1.ibm.com/ibm/history/doc.../pdf/as400.pdf

Basically an as/400 is a "mid-range" (as opposed to PC or Mainframe) computer made by ibm. The small ones look like 1970's coffee tables & the big ones look like telephone boxes from the Death Star. I think they have (had?) power PC chips (same-ish as Power-Mac) rather than intel x86.
They are very reliable but until recently needed ibm specific hardware. ( Don't get me started moaning about token ring - twin-ax & baluns !!)
Anyhoo -
I believe you can now get intel cpu's on a daughterboard to go into your as/400-e (ibm i-series ??) and you can run these cards as linux virtual machines. I have only heard of redhat being used on the partitions - and that you still need to run os/400 operating system to set up the partitions in the first place.
So, you get all the benefits of our fave Operating system without all the frailties of the normal Intel/PC architechture.
HTH
Ian

I've heard they've installed in servers similar to this one, Redhat linux and people are very happyn with!
Everything that you put from either of the three categories of those servers, it completely supported by Linux in general, so it should run very good with either of those three,

cheers!