Re: [MLUG] Linux *really* hits the big-time

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jonathan King wrote:

> Um, if your supercomputing center is an IBM shop, I think it's safe to
> say they would have some knowledge of this. :-)  More seriously, this
> particular system is a server rather than a drop in replacement for
> your SP system; supercomputers using this technology are already on
> order at other sites.

You're right.  They are drooling to get some of those 1.3 GHz Power4s.


> > I knew Linux was really going places when IBM decided to adopt it a
> > few years ago.  Another reason to expect to see it really take off is
> > that people like the people on this list -- mostly young students --
> > are becoming real Linux experts.
>
> And that's as good a reason as any I've heard for why IBM really
> adopted it, other than "it's not Microsoft".

More on IBM's decision here:

http://mlug.missouri.edu/list-archives/2000-03/msg00265.php3

This was also the reason some of the machines at MU were moved to Linux
instead of other unices (e.g., AIX) -- or so we were told at a major MLUG
meeting a couple years back.

Mike

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