On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 9:17 AM, John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > There are similar questions associated with IBM. Sun provides support >> for some major tools used in Linux these days, notably open office but also >> SGE. > > Don't forget MySQL > Who knows what the result of the catfight between DB2 and MySQL would be
And Lustre vs. GPFS. Or Sun Open Storage vs. IBM's proprietary storage. And GlassFish, xVM & VirtualBox, Sun Java System Web Server (Netscape Enterprise Server), NetBeans -- would be too sad if IBM buys Sun and withdraws resources and support for thsoe projects and products. Rayson > > > > Finally I don't think of Rackable as being a software company at all, >> although SGI has always had SOME software component to their offerings, >> if only glueware or graphicware for their hardware. > > > Wellllll.... I count XFS, CXFS, DMF as software. > Think of Performance Copilot, an MPI stack, Tempo cluster management suite > also. > (Did I mention I've been on a few SGI training courses?) > Plus their new VUE visual computing software - which was very attractive for > me. > > > Again I could see >> them simply glomming onto SGI's server business and more or less purging >> their developers and eliminating all participation in non-revenue >> generating development. > > Which would be tragic. > > I agree with what you say in the main though - we should be very aware > of what could come > out of these mergers. > > Maybe I'm going too far in saying this, but what would a Linux > landscape consisting of > a very few commercially supported Linuxes plus the one alternative of > Debian (plus Ubuntu) > be like? > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
