Which important piece of IBM software was
opensourced?
No major IBM's SW had been open sourced, as far as I know. Last I checked, AIX
5L was still a closed product that cost money, on top of the expensive IBM
Power CPU based hardware.
I wanted to get the lowest cost 1U Power based server to
Yeah, might be true to some extent - but the reality
is different. Normally you have Windows, Solaris,
zOS, AIX, HP NonStop and maybe Linux.
This is partially true, to the extent that you will have a salad of operating
systems and hardware in small to midsize shops.
Large shops have these
No major IBM's SW had been open sourced, as far as I know.
Exactly. IBM has done nothing to open source their software stack: z/OS, AIX,
DB2, Websphere.
I think they are not even looking to do that... since it is very complicated,
time consuming - much easier: confuse the world with Linux, sign
Really? How so? I personally think this is the one
area where Linux and
some of the commercial Linux distributions shine. I
can't wait for Sun to
address patch management in Solaris, and hope they
will release a solution
similar to what is provided in Redhat Satellite
Server (which
Really? How so? I personally think this is the one
area where Linux and
some of the commercial Linux distributions shine.
I
can't wait for Sun to
address patch management in Solaris, and hope they
will release a solution
similar to what is provided in Redhat Satellite
Server
You might think that Linux shines in that area. Obviously you've never dealt
with platform provisioning and engineering in any structured matter to know
what's all involved. Had you ever designed and built a JumpStart
infrastructure that automatically installs and configures thousands of
