Solaris Now an Option for IBM Blades

Amiga Trombone writes to tell us that IBM and Sun have reached an agreement allowing Solaris 10 to be supported on IBM BladeCenter servers. From the article: "IBM confirmed the move in a statement, saying Sun is among more than 700 partners in the "BladeCenter ecosystem" and that as an operating system option, Solaris joins Windows, Linux for x86 and Power chips, and IBM's AIX version of Unix. IBM won't sell Solaris or support for the operating system to customers, IBM said. Anyone interested will have to purchase the software and support from Sun."

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Conversation with Dante

[AKAImBatman]

Me: Hey Dante, what's wrong?

Dante: Oh nothing, nothing at all.

Me: Come on, you can't fool me. Something's up.

Dante: Alright. You've heard about the news from Sun and IBM, right?

Me: No, not at all.

Dante: Well, apparently IBM is now bundling Solaris on some of its machines.

Me: No kidding? That's pretty shocking. But why does that bum you?

Dante: You see, me and my buddy Virgil just took another tour of hell. Sort of a "Dante's Inferno for the Modern Sinner" type of thing. We wanted everyone to know that hell is just as bad as before.

Me: And?

Dante: And we're having to change the name of the book. Hell is not only bad, it's worse than ever! The only down side is that "Dante's Not So Inferno" just doesn't have the same ring to it.

Me: No! You don't mean...

Dante: That's right, hell has officially frozen over!

Re:old news is new news

[rwyoder]

I submitted this story last Friday and it was rejected!!! Now 5 days later it's 'news'.

You must be new here.

Tech Support!

[quark007]

IBM Tech Support - Hello! May I help you?
Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server won't boot up!
IBM Tech support - Hmm..What OS it has?
Tommy the admin - Solaris 10.
IBM Tech support - I am afraid I can't help you. You will need to talk with Sun! Here is the number xxx-xxx-xxxx
Tommy the admin - ok.
Calls xxx-xxx-xxxx
Gets back ~This number does not exist. Please check the number or call directory assistance.~
Goes to Sun Webpage. Searches for Tech Support.
~Gets 10000 hits.~
~Clicks on one.~
~Gets 404 Page not found error.~
~Goes to Google. Searches for Sun Tech Support. Gets the number!~
~Calls Sun Tech support.~
Sun Tech support - Hello! How can I help you today?
Tommy the admin - My new IBM blade server with Sun Solaris won't boot up!
Sun Tech Support - I am afraid I can't help you. Please talk with IBM.
~hangs up~
~Tommy the admin takes zoloft~
~Tommy the admin is happy~

And Now The Weather

[Ed Almos]

There will be extensive snowfalls throughout Hell and production of snowballs is expected to rise.

Ed Almos