« Network Applications are evolving... | Main | well, duh... »
August 16, 2007
Solaris on IBM? wtf indeed!
Although it makes a LOT of sense:
Sun Microsystems has nailed its biggest Solaris x86 win to date by lining up IBM as a firm backer of the operating system.The two companies today revealed that IBM will offer Solaris x86 as an option on a number of its Xeon- and Opteron-based servers by year end. This arrangement provides Sun with its first real Tier 1 OEM partner on the Solaris x86 front. In addition, the two companies have decided to examine Solaris running on IBM's mainframes and even - gasp - its Power-based systems.
"Just pragmatically, there are a lot of customers that love Solaris and are loyal to it," said IBM's systems chief Bill Zeitler, during a conference call.
better look out, dogs and cats are starting to live together.
Seriously, the reason this makes sense is simple: Solaris is robust and has huge enterprise-level penetration. AIX never made it past the risc boxes, and Linux doesn't haqve Solaris' level of adoption and acceptance (and probably never will). Clustering solutions for Solaris are much further along than Linux as well.
Posted by Edward J. Branley at August 16, 2007 7:38 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.nola-blogs.com/cgi-bin/mt/ruebourbon.cgi/870
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Solaris on IBM? wtf indeed!:
» Smoke ritalin. from Ritalin inhaled lung damage.
Ritalin. Ritalin scleroderma. History of ritalin. Expired ritalin. Why is ritalin over prescribed for adhd. American pharmacy for ritalin. [Read More]
Tracked on December 25, 2007 1:14 PM