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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. hp double faced? by Diabolus777 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I own a hp laptop and i cant get some of it's features to work under Linux. Thanks to the good work of the open source community, some patches were made available but none of them works flawlessly.

    The developpers explicitely included hp support email response in the .diff files as an apology to the buggy nature of the patch, which mention that hp don't support Linux, hence, these patches are the work of reverse engineering.

    They put on their most expensive hardware an OS that they don't support.

    What to make of this?

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  2. Re:But of course... by Mikey-San · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I dunno about what's "most suited to big iron", but I do know that 45 of Netcraft's top 50 uptime list run some type of BSD (as of the authoring of this post):

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

    Regardless of applicability to the topic at hand, that's a pretty impressive statistic.

    (Apologies for not citing more than one statistic in a post like this. I know it's pretty much useless as-is.)

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