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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. Only 4GB RAM on multiproccesor Itanium 2? by 1984 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    For the newfactor article:

    "The company's base edition of Linux Server 4.0 software is licensed to accommodate up to 4 Itanium 2 processors."

    OK, so it's good for a to 4-way system before you have to pay more money. But later...

    "It supports 4GB of RAM..."

    If you're paying out for a 4-way Itanium 2, wouldn't you (typically) want to handle more than 4GB RAM? I imagine there are applications that benefit from a 64-bit CPU but don't use much RAM, but I thought the core market was people using large amounts of data?

    Or does it support more RAM and this article's just not great?

  2. From the too bizare and stupid to be real dept. by mxmasster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    See this is all part of the strategy... sue IBM for infringing on your IP, so everyone will buy your product so that they won't be liable.

    But wait, release a GPL product with your IP embedded in it... doesn't that mean that your IP is now GPL?

    Boy am I confused, so SCO is suing IBM for writing software that they are now selling for themselves and benifiting from.

    Where can I buy tickets to the court case? I can't wait for this!

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