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IBM Reveals New Virtual Linux Environment

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the pave-the-way dept.

jenwren1010 writes to mention that IBM has just announced the new open beta version of their virtual Linux environment that allows users to run x86 Linux programs on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. "Designed to reduce power, cooling and space by consolidating x86 Linux workloads on System p servers, it will eventually be released as the [rolls-off-the-tongue] 'IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE).' With a 31.5% global revenue share during 2006, IBM hopes to build on System p UNIX success and extend firmly into the Linux marketplace. Considering there are almost 2,800 applications that already run natively on Linux on System p servers, the chances are good that it will succeed."

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  1. I seem to remember a similar technology from SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think it's pretty cocky of IBM to do this while the SCO case is still before the courts. It may be a case of the hand that steals not knowing what the hand that conceals is doing This time it might get a slap!

    I recommend SCOX. It's a BUY.

    T_A

  2. but does it run linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    what?

  3. Re:Remember folks... by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 2, Funny

    umm, AT&T? Standard Oil? The Holy Roman Catholic Church?(sorta j/k on the last one)

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  4. Re:Imagine an array of virtual Linux machines by Constantine+XVI · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then what, set them up in a Beowulf cluster?

    Never would have thought of it before.

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  5. Re:Imagine an array of virtual Linux machines by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why yes, a virtual Beowulf cluster!

    But, first, we could argue over whether they would work better with BSD or Linux ...

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