-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 As Sun's "dude's got long hair CEO", Jonathan Schwartz said [1]: * Sun and IBM have struck a deal to support Solaris on IBM hardware * IBM will become a Solaris OEM and will resell subscriptions on their System X and BladeCenter hardware * we'll both work on optimizations for drivers and system performance
Now a couple of questions to think about: - - where do they stand in the mainframe fight ? - - what will happen to AIX ? - - will IBM x86 architectures be enough for Sun ? Right now, Solaris is the MacOS X for servers and it's in HP, DELL and now IBM, all major datacenter suppliers, which puts Solaris and SUN in the same ground as Linux is, but with greater functionalities, such as: zones & dsd, zfs & raidz, predictive self-healing and dtrace. [1] - http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/momentous_day_for_solaris - -- Vitor Domingos Paradigma.pt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGxM1ozLeQsaqPtNIRCnloAKCCxdTpqZ9rboSJWDB/15sJXehARwCfVxDk Qp7kYPCmWJqAFFInwNyNhsE= =SiaH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
