Gibson do NOT have a good reputation in the electronic audio market.
They took a good company (Opcode) and through mismanagement / misdirection of the company and lack of understanding of the companies market they lost all the staff and all their market share.
I'm a PC user and am now stuck with an expensive 8 port MIDI patch bay from Opcode that has drivers that work on Windows 98 (note, not 98SE, not ME, not 2000) only.
I managed to contact an ex Opcode now Gibson employee regarding driver problems and the possibility of releasing their interface code to allow others to write new drivers. I was told that "Gibson is absolutely not in the business of releasing intellectual property that they own. Ever." and futhermore that "No further driver development is planned, those people don't even work here anymore".
This combined with that fact that this "new" idea of theirs seems to be simply an ethernet based poor cousin of Yamaha's firewire based MLAN - which incidentally has a HUGE list of pro audio companies genuinely supporting it, not a generic list of computer companies and home electronics manufacturers they are "in discussions with".
This product will be DOA not only because Gibson is simply no match for Yamaha, but because their product is inferior and not supported by anyone but Gibson (despite gallantly trying to push it on the Open Standard bandwagon).
With IBM submitting kernel patches in the past for large memory management and high end hardware that have been largely rejected by the linux kernel development team - is IBM considering forking the kernel and creating an accompanying distribution for "big iron" servers.
It seems with the de-emphasis of AIX, that pulling the serious features of AIX out (JFS, really good highly scalable SMP, really good compilers etc) and putting them in your own distribution would put it head and shoulders above existing distos.
Combined with IBM branding, proven experience in OS development and design it would be an easy sell. So really the question is, when is IBM announcing the work they've already started on this?
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Gibson do NOT have a good reputation in the electronic audio market.
They took a good company (Opcode) and through mismanagement / misdirection of the company and lack of understanding of the companies market they lost all the staff and all their market share.
I'm a PC user and am now stuck with an expensive 8 port MIDI patch bay from Opcode that has drivers that work on Windows 98 (note, not 98SE, not ME, not 2000) only.
I managed to contact an ex Opcode now Gibson employee regarding driver problems and the possibility of releasing their interface code to allow others to write new drivers. I was told that "Gibson is absolutely not in the business of releasing intellectual property that they own. Ever." and futhermore that "No further driver development is planned, those people don't even work here anymore".
This combined with that fact that this "new" idea of theirs seems to be simply an ethernet based poor cousin of Yamaha's firewire based MLAN - which incidentally has a HUGE list of pro audio companies genuinely supporting it, not a generic list of computer companies and home electronics manufacturers they are "in discussions with".
This product will be DOA not only because Gibson is simply no match for Yamaha, but because their product is inferior and not supported by anyone but Gibson (despite gallantly trying to push it on the Open Standard bandwagon).
With IBM submitting kernel patches in the past for large memory management and high end hardware that have been largely rejected by the linux kernel development team - is IBM considering forking the kernel and creating an accompanying distribution for "big iron" servers.
It seems with the de-emphasis of AIX, that pulling the serious features of AIX out (JFS, really good highly scalable SMP, really good compilers etc) and putting them in your own distribution would put it head and shoulders above existing distos.
Combined with IBM branding, proven experience in OS development and design it would be an easy sell. So really the question is, when is IBM announcing the work they've already started on this?