On Wed, November 11, 2009 10:21, Patrick Spinler wrote: > > As I mentioned in my first message, it works for Linux: IBM makes at > least some money from reselling and supporting that. I'd argue that > much of the reason for it's popularity is that (versions of it) are > freely available to play with.
Indeed. One early impetus for the development of Linux (and the free BSDs) was people wanting Unix at home for non-exorbitant prices. You'll note the fate of the commercial Unix vendors. zVM won't have the same rate, of course, but convincing people to chose zVM instead of other virtualisation technologies is a lot easier if they can, e.g., play with it under Herc with minimal effort. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
