Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2003-06-18 at 15:03, Ryan Ware wrote: 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

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-21 Thread John Summerfield
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2003-06-18 at 15:03, Ryan Ware wrote: 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

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Phil Payne
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

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Ryan Ware
- 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

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Fargusson.Alan
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

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Rod Furey
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. AMD64 version: SuSE Mandrake now, Red Hat real soon now. Rod (just read the article in Linux Format)

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Ryan Ware
-Original Message- From: Rod Furey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 12:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting) will, but it will take years before you'll be able to buy a 64 bit version of Redhat loaded on a 64

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread Rod Furey
How many processors do they support? Oooh - I think that they're up to 8 at the moment. Mind you it's just been released. There's a 64 bit version of the Linux code though. http://www.suse.de/us/company/press/press_releases/archive03/sles_amd64.html Rod

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-18 Thread John Summerfield
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Rod Furey wrote: 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. AMD64 version: SuSE Mandrake now, Red Hat real soon now. I suspect that AMD64 is really easy to DIY. I think I'd install for an Athlon,

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-13 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2003-06-12 at 14:44, Lionel Dyck wrote: SCO's president and chief executive Darl McBride told Reuters that IBM had until midnight tomorrow to come to an agreement or it would revoke its licence. They've been threating that for a while, and IBM have been saying the license is

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-13 Thread Wesley Parish
Could it be possibly because by now there is _no_ specifically SVR4 code in AIX? If so, IBM parted company with ATT a while back and it still hasn't got through to the ninnies^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hexecutives at SCO. It is a possibility. Wesley Parish On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 21:18, you wrote: On Iau,

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-13 Thread Phil Payne
SCO's president and chief executive Darl McBride told Reuters that IBM had until midnight tomorrow to come to an agreement or it would revoke its licence. They've been threating that for a while, and IBM have been saying the license is non-revokable for a similar length of time Well,

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-12 Thread Daniel Jarboe
$US1 billion for allegedly using code from SCO Group's Unix platform in AIX, as well as IBM's Linux distribution. IBM's linux distribution, right. If we don't have a resolution by midnight on Friday the 13th, the AIX world will be a different place, An interesting turn of events, kinda sounds

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-12 Thread Lionel Dyck
This would appear to be the last weak grasp for life of a company with a fatal sickness (inept management). Lionel B. Dyck, Systems Software Lead Kaiser Permanente Information Technology 25 N. Via Monte Ave Walnut Creek, Ca

Re: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting)

2003-06-12 Thread Fargusson.Alan
: Lionel Dyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SCO ups the ante (this is getting interesting) From http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6584026%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html SCO ups ante against IBM Staff writers JUNE 12, 2003