I suspect IBM wants to keep the penguin colonies appropriately corralled. Hard to tout you can support hundreds/thousands of Linuses in a (native) LPAR environment. Does Power have a z/VM analogue ?.
Shane ... On Wed, Jul 28th, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Ken Porowski wrote: > It may be that they don't have the management piece for Linux yet > Power7/AIX supported from November > > xBlades/Linux support is only a statement of direction for 1st half 2011 > Maybe when that comes out we'll see Power7/Linux > > -----Original Message----- > Kirk Wolf > > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Starr, Alan <alan_st...@calpers.ca.gov> > wrote: > > It would indeed be interesting to see discussion of this "biggest > Mainframe announcement in decades". > > > > > > 3) Is it sufficient to support AIX but not the other flavors of Unix > (if I read the announcement correctly)? > > I also found this curious. From what I understand, the Power7 > BladeCenter runs both AIX and Linux: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/ps700series/i > ndex.html > > Why would Linux on Power be excluded? (but not Linux on X64?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
