I don't think IBM is going to dump AIX for a long time. Linux can't scale vertically as well as any of the commercial Unices. Eventually it probably will, but it will take years before you'll be able to buy a 64 bit version of Redhat loaded on a 64 processor system.
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting) > It occurs to me that I may have been wrong when I speculated that SCO wants to be bought by IBM. I am starting to think that SCO just wants IBM to support AIX (and pay more royalties). It sounds a lot like IBM is planning to drop AIX, which would hurt SCO. IBM has described its UNIX license as "fully paid up" - sounds like a lump sum deal. What they would REALLY like are license revenues from IBM's Linux operations. Of course, IBM doesn't actually _distribute_ Linux itself. The comments made by and about Linus Torvalds regarding the difficulty of ensuring that contributed code is free of IP restrictions highlight this. I wonder if this explains why IBM stayed out of the distribution business? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803
