> I think this is pretty funny: > http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh090208-story10.html
Knowing a little about how the infrastructure for the Sydney and Barcelona Olympics was done, this article seems a bit misguided. IBM caught a lot of flak in the early 80s for promoting being pointlessly different/unique as a customer lock-in strategy. If you look at this answer from the perspective that IBM has been pushing the idea of portable applications (via the big push for Java and Linux), and Linux runs on ALL the systems IBM makes, it's a lot more rational for IBM to make the applications use Java and Linux than i5OS and AIX on p. Then they can move them anywhere that the load fits as quickly as giving the new system access to the data and deploying the apps to a JVM container. Actually, seems pretty smart to me. AIX and i5OS still have a lot more tuning and management knobs than Linux, but being able to trivially redeploy apps on the fly to bigger/different hardware is a hard act to argue with. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
