2009/4/3 Robert G. Brown <[email protected]>: > > There are similar questions associated with IBM. Sun provides support > for some major tools used in Linux these days, notably open office but > also SGE.
Don't forget MySQL Who knows what the result of the catfight between DB2 and MySQL would be > Finally I don't think of Rackable as being a software company at all, > although SGI has always had SOME software component to their offerings, > if only glueware or graphicware for their hardware. Wellllll.... I count XFS, CXFS, DMF as software. Think of Performance Copilot, an MPI stack, Tempo cluster management suite also. (Did I mention I've been on a few SGI training courses?) Plus their new VUE visual computing software - which was very attractive for me. Again I could see > them simply glomming onto SGI's server business and more or less purging > their developers and eliminating all participation in non-revenue > generating development. Which would be tragic. I agree with what you say in the main though - we should be very aware of what could come out of these mergers. Maybe I'm going too far in saying this, but what would a Linux landscape consisting of a very few commercially supported Linuxes plus the one alternative of Debian (plus Ubuntu) be like? _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
