HP Embraces Linux for its Toughest Servers

Posted by Zonk on Sunday July 24, 2005 @10:11AM 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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Again? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-24 10:14 · Score: 4, Insightful

>in a move that suggests Linux is finally ready for prime time

Again? I think the last time was when it was let known that linux run several important systems in stock and other vital exchanges.
Re:HP Needs Linux to Survive by Compuser · 2005-07-24 11:41 · Score: 4, Insightful

Don't worry about IBM. Having core developers in-house
boosts their services part. If HP cuts their devs
and goes with Linux without R&D part in place then
their efforts to develop their service business
(something they dearly want) will hit the wall sooner
rather than later.