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Solaris Now an Option for IBM Blades

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the grand-unified-theory dept.

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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  1. Found the problem.. by LinuxHam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe this is why..

    Sun freezes hell, gets IBM to sell Solaris on blades Friday October 28, @10:55AM Rejected

    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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  2. Re:Solaris on POWER/PowerPC by greed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Filesystem performace is slower than ext3 with small files? Er....

    System hangs with Adaptec SCSI adapters? No, that's not good either....

    I know! Even Worse Video Card Support! Yay Solaris!

    I tried "Solaris Admins Already Know How To Admin It," an argument recommended by Sun, and our Solaris admins said, "We're Not Touching Solaris x86. You want x86, you get Linux."