Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Stephen O’Grady covers the OpenSolaris debate
A must read. I can’t say I’m entirely surprised by the balanced view Stephen posted this evening – it’s O’Grady at his best. I am a bit surprised he weighed in at all though – as he put it, there are a few things he’d rather do “Including having a few of my fingernails pulled out.”
Despite the painful picture that portrays, I’d recommend his post as a very well articulated and valuable Q&A to read if you’re interested in the topic. Sometimes the best work is the hardest… but I’m already brainwashed in Linux myself so it comes easy to me ;-)
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February 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Patrick Aronnes said:
Perhaps it is just me, but I am very excited to see Sun innovating in a competing kernel, and watching IBM embrace it. The groupthink surrounding Linux is one of its biggest failings.
February 21st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
md said:
??? I think you’re seriously misinformed “watching IBM embrace it”??? The only open source kernel IBM has embraced is the Linux kernel (IBM is #3 in code contributions).
The greatest asset Linux has is the group – all the different ideas pouring in. Just look at x86 virtualization and all the options available today vs say 2 yrs ago. KVM for instance – very innovative solution, only in Linux…
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
Patrick Aronnes said:
That’s not what your salespeople are telling my employer – should I send my PO’s elsewhere? I thought you guys are OEM’ing Solaris, and supporting it on your mainframes. Might want to get that straight, Michael, now I’m seriously confused – and PO’s are going on hold.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:16 am
James said:
Work is definitely being done to port Solaris to System Z: http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton/entry/solaris_on_ibm_system_z and while it’s Sine Nomine doing the porting, IBM is clearly happy to promote it: http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid80_gci1284280,00.html
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Alan Hargreaves said:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/27/sun_ibm_solarisblade/
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4269.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/soa/IBM-backs-Sun-s-Solaris-renews-Java-pact/0,139023166,139199273,00.htm
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/solutions/os/solaris/
and that’s only a smattering of results from throwing the keywords IBM and Solaris at google.
Alan.