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Sun Bashes Linux on (IBM) Mainframes

Posted by michael on from the these-aren't-the-servers-you're-looking-for dept.

dagbrown writes: "An article linked from Sun's front page, entitled "Linux on the mainframe: Not a good idea" by Shahin Khan, Sun's chief competitive officer, has the interesting theory that Linux on mainframes makes no sense because, among other things, the VM/Linux combo isn't a very good match. What do the folks on Slashdot think?"

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  1. Sun has lost... by HogGeek · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ... Their competative edge. With the hardware issues on the Sparc II modules that affected companies such as e-bay (and the company that I work for), they have given alot of their customers black eyes. We are converting from a SUN E10K to IBM RS/6000's running AIX and Linux, because our clients can no longer tolerate the Sun crashing...

    Sun is just trying to cover the ass, as they are losing a lot of business to IBM.