Why would the Microsoft Licensing be "tricky"? Expensive perhaps as you need
one license per virtual machine, but not tricky...
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The tricky part about this is the Microsoft licensing.
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If such a beast were to materialize, would IBM let customers run it on
IFL's (where "L" stand for Linux)?
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How could IBM stop them, other than by some sort of license about what
could be run on an IFL? Systems such as z/OS do not run on an IFL due to
some differences in the microcode loaded. z/OS is dependant on those
differences. If somebody wanted to, they could port one of the *BSDs to
run on an IFL. OpenSolaris runs on an IFL as well.
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