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HP Embraces Linux for its Toughest Servers

Posted by Zonk on from the penguins-in-high-places dept.

Colmao writes "Investor's Business Daily wrote up an article interviewing Martin Fink, the head of HP's NonStop Unit. From the article'In a move that suggests Linux is finally ready for prime time, Hewlett-Packard is giving the free software a bigger role on some of its toughest servers.' NonStop servers are HP's most costly machines. They are designed to be always on, mission critical appliances. They are used to run some of the world's stock markets. Linux is making big moves in the datacenter and getting some much needed exposure."

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  1. Re:HP Needs Linux to Survive by a11 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    HP Unix was distinctly inferior to IBM's AIX

    WTF are you talking about? I've administered both for many years. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

    Linux a feature-rich OS that rivals (and likely now exceeds) IBM's AIX

    The fact that you got modded as insightful and not as the uneducated inexperienced troll you are says quite a bit about some of these moderators. Wish I hadn't used up all my mod points.

    I've been a UNIX admin for a long time. I've worked with Linux, AIX, HP-UX, and Sun. It goes HP, IBM, Sun, Linux. That's for mission-critical enterprise systems.

    Cheers fuckface.