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SCO Releases Linux OS for Itanium 2

Posted by timothy on from the oh-there's-room-alright dept.

GreyPoopon writes "Computerworld has an article referring to SCO's announcement of Enterprise Linux for the Itanium 2. Base installation starts at $999 for up to four CPUs. My favorite quote: "With its new system, SCO is a little late to the Linux on Itanium 2 market." I would think being late would be the least of their worries right now. I personally consider this to be my daily dose of comedy. Newsfactor has a better article."

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  1. Re:what? by intermodal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    i think its one of those things that nobody likes but companies make anyway, kind of like circus peanuts.

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  2. Re:1000 bux by jedidiah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't be serious. SCO was never a "big player". They were always a pissant little wannabe company.

    If I'm going to be paying that much for an OS for a piddly little 4-CPU machine, I want someone from IBM or Sun to be available to do onsite support.

    Buying from SCO isn't even on par with buying from Dell.

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  3. Re:1000 bux by skroz · · Score: 3, Insightful
    A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't. Seriously, can anyone tell me what would justify paying that?
    I don't know, ask RedHat. I personally think it's a fine idea from their perpective if they can sell it, but that's another issue.
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  4. Huh? by qwijibrumm · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The thing I can't wait for is 64-bit laptops with a real advantage over their 32-bit counterparts
    You won't see this with Itanium2 any time soon do you have any idea what kind of power the suck up? Unless you want to carry around a battery pack the size of a small UPS keep waiting.
    It has been quite a number of years since the jump was made between 16 and 32 bits... It's high time to make the next jump to 64 bits!
    I agree to the extent that the consumer end market is ready for the power that a 64 bit processor can deliver. Most importantly RAM limits. (I'm almost using all of my 640k ;) However, don't think that 64 bits is new it's been out since at least the early 90's just only for scientific and other number crunching applications.
    In addition to all the wonders of 64 bit computers running UNIX-like operating systems, such as it being WAY COOL, there is a REAL ADVANTAGE for the free software community in these developments! I firmly believe that if the free software community embraces 64-bit architectures as soon as possible...
    Free/OSS comunities already have embraced 64 bit architectures. Linux and GNU run on MIPS, Sparc, PPC64, IA64, Alpha, and are well underway (Done?) with x86-64. It's not the lack of the community embracing the architechture, it's OEMs not producing a 64bit system that is affordable. Look at the damn prices for an Itanium1 or Sparc station.

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  5. Re:I dont know 'bout you guys... by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Translation between marketroid-talk (from their site) and reality:

    • Marketroid: Support for Intel Itanium 2-based systems
      Reality: You can download the same software for free, but we know that PHBs don't trust FREE software
      .
    • Marketroid: Powered by UnitedLinux to ensure the broadest interoperability with other UnitedLinux products
      Reality:Even if UnitedLinux kicks us out of their group, we can still copy their stuff, after all, it is open-source
      .
    • Marketroid: Powerful new enterprise features based on the Linux 2.4.19 kernel
      Reality: No, we don't have any 64-bit apps for you to run, but this just sounds way cool!
      .
    • Marketroid: Secure, remote, Web-based system and network administration
      Reality: webmin.
      .
    • Marketroid: Sophisticated and flexible clustering features
      Reality: Which you won't use, or you'd already be running a cluster, which you can download for free here
      .
    • Marketroid: Backed by SCO's worldwide support infrastructure
      Reality: We want to lock you into a long-term support contract with us, even though we didn't create the thing.
  6. Re:1000 bux by elflord · · Score: 4, Insightful
    A thousand dollars for a linux install, eh? These SCO people must know something I don't.

    They know that someone who has a quad CPU Itanium 2 can afford to spend $1000. SCO don't need to come up with something that the average slashkiddie considers to be a good price, they only need to come up with a complete product/support solution that is better than the competition.

  7. supports only 4 GB RAM by u19925 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    so much for their 64-bit OS.

  8. Re:hm by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think Linus could revoke their right to use the Linux(tm) trademark. If he were so inclined...

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  9. Fuck them by Billly+Gates · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should not get advertisment from slashdot. Microsoft releases some cool products and features and yet they are barely mentioned at all here on slashdot unless its negative because the editors hate them. Same should apply with SCO.

    Cmd Taco and Timothy. If your reading this please do not advertise for SCO. Screw them. Tell them to shove it up there ass unless its something really worthwile or negative.

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