IBM Gets AS/400 Running On PlayStation

TomPee writes "Hackers may have oiled the rails for Linux fans eager to run their favourite Penguin-fronted operating system on Xbox, but that's nothing compared to IBM's latest in-house project, according to Gamesindustry.biz: running the AS/400 enterprise operating system on a humble PlayStation. Now I'm only wondering: what will be the practical use of this ?" According to another account from News.com.au, which non-specifically mentions 'PlayStation', it may be that IBM are working on the PS2, and not the PSOne, as the newer article claims.

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Are some big companies gearing up to take on MS

[SmallFurryCreature]

• IBM supports linux, a direct competitor to MS on low-end servers and maybe in the future on the desktop
• Sony releases a linux version for the PS2
• All the big japanese electronics firms work together on a linux project
• IBM puts their mainframe software, a very stready earner on PS.
• IBM and sony work together on PS3
• IBM delivers the chips for apple
• Apple uses BSD
• ?????? Of course all of this doesn't have to mean a thing, but if you want you can read into this a serious contented to the Wintel domination.

  A living room systeem designed by Sony, on IBM hardware with the solidity of AS/400 (mainframes did things in reliabilty and security we can only dream of in our so called modern OSes) and the openess of linux. Perhaps even taken a few UI lessons from Apple? I would buy one that is for sure.

  Oh well a guy can dream can't he?

Re:wait...

[IM6100]

It's not that complex:

The boring suits have decided to commercialize on 'the hackers' and therefore have adopted sort of a 'cool' sheen. The hackers at Sun are getting ever closer to retirement, plus they don't take software that runs on unreliable cheap PeeCee hardware** very seriously. Plus, Linux threatens a hell of a lot of cool technology in Sun's Solaris flagship, Linux is still sort of an enhanced MS_DOS compared to Solaris.

(** This is a point worth considering. I, personally have been getting more and more involved with classic Sun Sparc hardware. There's just no comparison in, say, the incredible at-all-levels-refined engineering in the SparcStation 5 and the kind of 'stamp out crap, but do it expensively to impress the suits' engineering that went into even the most expensive servers from Compaq.)