Could Platform Solutions change the low-end IBM mainframe world?
An analysis of the legal actions is available Platform Solutions’ (PSI) approach to the market has been discussed before with a degree of scepticism entirely justified in the light of recent rumours. PSI made strong statements about being an IBM plug-compatible manufacturer rather than an emulation supplier – the sort of statements that might imply that hardware would soon be leaving a California facility with the company’s logo on it – just as the real PCMs did it. But it would appear that PSI’s base system is a standard Itanium server with – a novelty in the IBM plug-compatible market – a Hewlett-Packard badge on the front. So far, PSI has not announced any hardware content of its own (Fundamental Software markets channel adapters, etc., for FLEX-ES) so PSI’s hardware is 100% Hewlett-Packard. Meaning, by implication, that an existing system of the right specification could be used. Mainframe emulation shipped on a DVD. This may change the situation somewhat. Instead of seeing PSI as
