Python and Industry, IBM I'm afraid

[Michael Ströder]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> 
> "D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
> news:mailman.979786609.2939.python-list at python.org...
>     [snip]
> > I have a part time job at a local grocery store that has a
> > video department.  The computer system they use is an IBM
> > mainframe with AIX (4 I think).
>
> (there _was_ an AIX/370, or
> something like that, that you *could* run on mainframes, but
> it didn't sell much at all);

If you're talking about using Python by running a Unix-flavour you
could try to convince your mainframe admin to install Linux in a VM.

AFAIK e.g. S.u.S.E. is planning to build a Linux distribution for
this platform.

Ciao, Michael.