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