[geeks] IBM to offer Solaris on it's servers...

Micah R Ledbetter vlack-lists at vlack.com
Fri Aug 17 00:54:56 CDT 2007


On Aug 16, 2007, at 23:13, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

>> On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>> If they did that, it would be tremendously stupid.  Solaris on
>>> POWER is
>>> the last thing they should want.
> I'm not saying it's a bad idea for the end-user.  I'm saying it's a  
> bad
> idea for IBM.

Why do you think so? My understanding of IBM's position was: "We'll  
do anything to get you to buy our hardware." That's why they  
virtualize Linux under z/OS, and why they offer Windows, Linux, and  
now Solaris on their x86 servers.

Am I wrong? Please enlighten me if so.

  - Micah



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