[...] > Give us a little time and OpenSolaris will be running on those machines. > > See http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0055/index.html > > and furthermore, it may even be possible some day for OpenSolaris > developers to be working with this : > > http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepcomputing/bluegene.html > > Sounds like marketing I know. But a year ago someone would have smirked > at the idea of OpenSolaris actually booting a native kernel on PowerPC > anytime soon. So I tell you now that its only a matter of time before > a full port of OpenSolaris is running on those new IBM machines. > > Dennis Clarke
Definitely very (very very) cool and interesting for us technical men. But, unfortunately, not _necessarily_ good for SUNW and for its finances. See this article: http://www.itjungle.com/tug/tug080306-story05.html " And if IBM really wanted to make some trouble, it might join the OpenSolaris project, hire some of those thousands of ex-Sun employees, and create its own variant of Solaris for X64 and Power processors, including a paid-for support structure. This way, IBM could attack Sun and get all the money. If IBM were not engulfed in all its Linux-related woes with SCO Group, Big Blue might have long since done its own Linux distribution, too." Many articles are still rather SUNW-sceptical, if not hostile in many cases. Unfortunately, sigh. Different, but related topic: I often wonder, who earns on Java ... ?! Certainly also IBM? SUNW pays and develops, IBM gets the money? Don't know. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
