Re: userspace breakage

Jeff V. Merkey
2005-12-30T15:24:59Z

Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:54 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
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>>The fact that Oracle and IBM support apps on Linux are Freeloading? Baloney!
>>Linux benefits by having the choice of al these applications.
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>Do they have binary-only kernel modules or user-space apps?
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>>(P.S. I have heard through the grapevine IBM is putting emphasis on AIX
>>as their platform and are actively telling this to large customers --
>>can you verify this and are you aware of it)
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>Not knwoing any inner IBM things, the simple commercial explanation is:
>If a customer buys AIX, he is forced to buy the hardware at IBM. And IBM
>is a hardware selling (and consulting) company anyways, it never was a
>"software company".
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The lawsuit is impacting their sales finally. They are telling this to
folks they are moving off Linux long term. I don't know
if it's a smoke screen due to the lawsuit or an actual technical
business decision. I would guess they are making a back door
to pull out if the lawsuit goes south. Looks like it might be based on
filings on the 12/22 but I don't know for certain.

Jeff

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