I wonder if IBM wants to be the ONLY computer emulator in the world? Article is titled: 'IBM virtualizes Linux x86 apps on System p box' http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid80_gci12 52514,00.html?bucket=NEWS&topic=306387
Should Intel sue IBM for infringing on its x86 patents? /Tom Kern On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:58:47 +0100, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED] RESEARCH.FREESERVE.CO.UK> wrote: >It sounds to me like someone didn't understand what they were hearing. Not uncommon in the >analyst community. > >It's hard to imagine a mainframe as a gaming machine - it doesn't have the bandwidth and >neither does any conceivable route to the end user. Games consoles throw HUGE amounts of data >about and it wouldn't be viable with a few tens of thousands of users - which is what you'd >need to make it pay. > >Some of the technology - sure. You spend hundreds of millions on technology development, it >only makes sense to use the knowledge gained elsewhere. > >Shutting off FLEX-ES systems? That's one of the oddest things about the lawsuit. Fundamental >Software is a one-product company and its product, market and livelihood have been "taken" >from it. And without even a mouse [four-letter reference to flatulence suppressed so as not >to inconvenience Darren] coming from Fremont? > >Doesn't anyone else think that a trifle odd? AFAIK Funsoft has said nothing either in public >or private. > >Fundamental has been bought off. Or even bought, period. Nothing else makes sense. A highly >suspicious deafening silence. > >-- > Phil Payne > http://www.isham-research.co.uk > +44 7833 654 800 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
