Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:26:23 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.sa.enteract.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904192023350.12203-100000@m4.stox.sa.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <371BFF76.227D7B18@softweyr.com>
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On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: <snip> > > > Sun? IBM? Intel? > > > > > > Oh that's right, they're all too small to count. But they did beat > > > SGI to the punch on the Linux thing. > > > > Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel > > agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open, > > but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ? > > Sun gave them a StarFire to play with. Is that enough? How many multi- > million dollar machines do they need? ;^) > > IBM has sent several dozen workstations and a couple of large SMP > servers to their Linux PPC partner, somewhere in Florida. Motorola > has 3 engineers doing full-time support for Linux on their CPU boards > over in Computer Division. > > SGI is already dead, they just haven't bothered to fall over yet. > Their executive staff have been driving them into the ground for > years, so it's not surprising. When I said donating technology, I meant things like XFS ( although SGI has not stated that this is one of the technologies ). Is IBM going to donate JFS and the volume management software ? -Ken Stox stox@enteract.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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