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IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes
coondoggie writes "Today IBM will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux, saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 replaced servers will be recycled by IBM Global Asset Recovery Services. The six data centers currently take up over 8 million square feet, or the size of nearly 140 football fields."
and still not a single posting from a user. I believe this may be a sign that slashdot is dyi...
whoa...
First psot!
But does it run....ah, hell. Um, imagine a beowulf cluster of...hmm.
Fuck it. Who wants pizza?
Sorry, I thought I would bring down the Slashdotters to the Digg level.
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Some say no to the album, the show
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SCO owns the rights to the original (AT&T) Unix code. (Maybe. Novell claims they still own the rights and the SCO was just their license collector).
There is no "Maybe" about it. SCO does not own any of the System V code - they own Unixware and Opensewer, just like SGI owns Irix. None of the copyrights on the SysV code transferred to The Santa Cruz Operation, let alone SCO/Caldera. And SCO has not provided any documentation that shows what (code) copyrights were transferred with the specificity required by law. SCO owes Novell millions of dollars for the licences they sold to Microsoft and SUN - despite their claims that those licenses do not fall under the contract with Novell (I.e., not about SysV), their filings to the Security and Exchange Commission state that they were about SysV.
According to their contract with SCO, SCO is to collect the royalties and pass them directly to Novell. Novell then gives them 5% of it.
Not all Unix licensees pay royalties - IBM and Sun have fully paid up licences. So they never give SCO a cent.
You, sir, have way too much time on your hands. I suggest a new hobby.
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