It's been rumoured that Shourya Sarcar said:
>
> I think we had different semantic analysis.
I think I have the advantage of having worked at IBM, and knowing the
people who do this stuff. Several years ago, I talked to one of the
planners about linux on the mainframe, and the conversation drifted off
to linux/6000. I reiterate, I beleive it works fine on f50/h50's.
The planner was working on getting some of IBM's high-availability
cluster tools ported from netfinity+NT to linux/6000. (actually, the
programmers had already done the port, they hated NT. what he was
working on was getting the business plan together, getting the sales &
marketing materials prepared, pushing the beurocratic infrastructure to
do what it takes to productize.) Of course, its pointless of sell
software that runs on top of linux/6000 if you don't *also* support
linux/6000 itself.
Note that having linux/6000 work is not the same as linux running on an
sp2. Although the hardware is based on the same architecture, there
are enough differences that its not instantly compatible.
Note that having a running copy of linux/6000 is not the same as
offering support for it. Its possible/likely that IBM nuked support for
it beacuse:
1) it cuts into the aix revenue stream
2) "what customer would be crazy enough to buy an rs/6000 and run linux
on it? wouldn't they want to run the much better aix?" these words I
quote, straight out of the plannners mouth.
3) perception that there's no demand for this product
4) perception that it would cost too much to support it
5) it costs millions of dollars to launch a product at IBM. You have to
print hundreds of thousands of sales brochures, translated into
dozens of languages, just to let the immense staff of salespeople
know that linux/6000 exists, and not to look stoopid when a customer
calls. If 10,000 salesmen each spend one hour learning about
linux/6000, you've already wasted in excess of $0.5M in salaries alone.
So, basically, its not worth launching a product unless you think
you'll make millions of dollars in revenue.
--linas
>
> Regards
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> >
> > If you read the article carefully, you will see that it says absolutely
> > zero about running linux on rs/6000's or sp/2's
> >
> > The article only states that they support linux beowulf clusters running
> > on intel (netfinity) platforms.
> >
> > fwiw linux should run on f50's and h50's,
> > but I don't know if its 'officially supported'.
> >
> > -- linas
> >
> > It's been rumoured that Shourya Sarcar said:
> > >
> > > This link should prove useful for settling all doubts ;-)
> >
> > like none of them? ;-)
> >
> > >
> > > http://www.zdnet.com.au/linux/stories/au0003286.html
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Shourya Sarcar
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: Guido Macchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:47 AM
> > > Subject: Re: RS6000?
> > >
> > >
> > > > It's been rumoured that Guido Macchi said:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anybody knows if exists a Linux implementation for the IBM RS6000?
> > > >
> > > > I think that IBM sells & supports this. Or at least they were planing
> > > > to a few years ago.
> > > >
> > > > --linas
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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