IBM & Sun Agreement Puts Pressure on HP

eldavojohn writes "IBM has turned to long time rival Sun in an effort to bring Solaris to its mainframes. Sun may be taking this chance to drop out of the server market while at the same time capture Solaris subscriptions via IBM sales. Either way, this certainly pressures HP in the server department."

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Re:Another nail in the server coffin for HP

[jackspenn]

Yeh, crazy HP, focusing resources on make sure Windows, RHEL, SuSE and VMWare ESX are supported.

What do you think they were thinking by not supporting dying OSes like AIX or Solaris?

Do you think it could be there is no compelling reason to use Solaris if you are not already using it today? Apart from ideology, there is no compelling reason.

Also my impression is that IBM's support of Solaris is to provide a transition path to IBM hardware from Sun Hardware, then after getting on the IBM hardware you can have developers work to move to Linux or Windows. Ideally move from Sun HW to virtual Solaris server on VMWare on IBM running next to virtual Linux server and transition services over.

I love Linux and I love Windows because they are evolving solutions that have useful attributes, but things like AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc. are largely stagnant solutions that exist to support legacy services.

This is unpopular to say on /., but the truth is Linux will not kill Windows, but it has already worked to kill all the fragmented UNIX solutions out there. Over time Linux will have to settle on one or two enterprise solutions to stay current with many of the side distros dying off or being relegated to hobby hacking.

- Eric