> The issue is quite possibly scalability. Only a tiny fraction of Solaris > users need huge > machines, and scalability is something IBM is quite good at. It might make > good business > sense for Solaris to cede the very top end to IBM and avoid the huge expense > of extreme > scalability when only a few of their customers need it.
Actually, quite the converse. The sweet spot is virtualization. IBM can't compete on computational power, but they can compete on manageability. There's a lot more to be done to deal with the rafts of pizza boxes than the big 106-ways. And there are a lot more opportunities to do it. > A television commercial here a few minutes ago crowed about Nissan (I think) > managing 56,500 > servers using Microsoft System Center. > THEY GOT THEMSELVES INTO THAT MESS, AND THEY'RE _PROUD_ OF IT ?!? Silk purse. Sows ear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
