Re: HP to can HP/UX? Intel pulls out of IA-64 prematurely?
From: Karsten Nyblad (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/11/04
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Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:43:00 +0200
"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote in message
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> JF Mezei wrote:
> > > It is not me asking that. It is www.theinquirer.net that has this
rumor:
> > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=15834
> >
> > Someone should have posted the whole article because as of 13:00 EDT,
the
> > article, while still listed on the front page, leads to a "page not
found".
>
> The link seems back on.
>
> Ok, I've read the article. I can't put much of a credibility level to it.
> However, it is *possible* that it was purposefully written that way to
protect
> the sources and have HP just shrug it off as another demented complaint.
It a style The Inquirer uses when they are writing about romurs. This time
the article seems less trustworthy than usual.
> However, there are interesting commercial implications about Linux. Lest
say
> IBM or HP or Sun were to abandon their proprietary Unix and go Linux.
Would
> they give money to Redhat/SuSe/etc, or would they decide to maintain their
own
> version of Linux for their own platform ?
>
> If they decide to go with a "linux vendor", that linux vendor then becomes
> more or less a proprietary vendor of a Unix OS. So there would be
commercial
> versions of Linux and there would be open source versions.
>
> So to end up with the same paradigm as you have now.
The license terms on RedHat are in som aspects worse than those of
proprietary software. You are not allowed to run RedHat unless you have a
support contract for the machine. If you want to drop the support contract,
then you will have to remove anything for RedHat has the copyright and which
is not on GPL. I think it is the logos you have to remove.
> For HP though, it might be a cost effective way to ditch HP-UX's "legacy
> code", and rejuvenate its Unix offering at a very low cost, and then take
it
> from there. I think the same applies to IBM, but I am not sure that Sun
would
> benefit much since its Solaris still has a good reputation and is still
seen
> as an industry standard Unix.
I think there is room for at least one of these vendors surviving. The
product would be Unix at machines with +32 processors.
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