Yeah - isn't it interesting that SCO seems to basically be saying that "we're waiting on the defendant to prove our case for us"?
I hope McBride and Co. have their graves dug already...
Sigline? We don't need no steenkin' sigline...
Yes. In my opinion that this is a last-gasp effort by Sun. Their failure to remain competitive in a market moving towards more open standards and interoperability - in other words, their priggish adherence to their outdated business model - has brought them (literally) to their knees (begging at AMD's door for a non-SPARC CPU to compete in the Linux market) in an attempt to appear to have a competitive platform. IBM's e325 (Opteron) announcement and subsequent performance had to be a revelation...
What I'm going to be most interested in seeing is whether or not HPaq jumps on this bandwagon. Since HP was so integral to the Itanium design (and HPaq has really staked their entire future on Itanium) and Compaq had and sold Alpha to Intel (another subject into which I will not venture)... it's interesting, at least. I will be very surprised if they do, since they seem to be indexing everything they do these days to Dell (ask your friendly HPaq rep what their future in the 8-way Xeon space is...).
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Yeah - isn't it interesting that SCO seems to basically be saying that "we're waiting on the defendant to prove our case for us"? I hope McBride and Co. have their graves dug already... Sigline? We don't need no steenkin' sigline...
Yes. In my opinion that this is a last-gasp effort by Sun. Their failure to remain competitive in a market moving towards more open standards and interoperability - in other words, their priggish adherence to their outdated business model - has brought them (literally) to their knees (begging at AMD's door for a non-SPARC CPU to compete in the Linux market) in an attempt to appear to have a competitive platform. IBM's e325 (Opteron) announcement and subsequent performance had to be a revelation... What I'm going to be most interested in seeing is whether or not HPaq jumps on this bandwagon. Since HP was so integral to the Itanium design (and HPaq has really staked their entire future on Itanium) and Compaq had and sold Alpha to Intel (another subject into which I will not venture)... it's interesting, at least. I will be very surprised if they do, since they seem to be indexing everything they do these days to Dell (ask your friendly HPaq rep what their future in the 8-way Xeon space is...).