Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:53:08 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>, "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@nickelkid.com>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007011144001.472-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net> In-Reply-To: <20000701105415.A82095@luke.immure.com>
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HP has their own project to run HP/UX on Intel. (And apparently so does IBM.) If AIX can run on PPC, it can run on Intel. Why IBM would willingly get involved with SCO puzzles me. SCO has the touch of death. The whole industry is rife with company A canabalizing the corpse of company B. With AMD it was NexGen and the DEC Alpha. With HP it was Apollo. With Sun it was Cray. The only problem is that the number of corpses is dwindling. When Sun, SCO, BSDi, Linux, HP/UX, and AIX all run on Intel or Intel derivatives, what will the market be like? Will pricing pressures cause UNIX server hardware to merge with its PC server bretheren? Some of the hottest UNIX boxen out there are PCI based. Is everything eventually going to be Intel? [RC] On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Bob Willcox wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:37:09PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Bob Willcox said on Jul 1, 2000 at 09:11:10: > > > > I thought that was Monterey. The combined IBM/SCO/HP thing. > > > > > > Yep, that is the code name. I didn't think HP had anything to do with > > > it though (didn't last time I talked to my IBM buddies working on it > > > about it, but that's been about a year ago now). Times and politics do > > > change. > > > > I somehow had that impression, but apparently they don't. The third is > > Sequent. > > Yes, and IBM bought Sequent last year. I think Sequent joined the > effort _after_ IBM acquired them. > > > Maybe I'm confusing it with the linux itanium port, to which > > HP did contribute, I think. > > I have no knowledge of this (I don't follow Linux or HP activities > much). > > Bob > > -- > Bob Willcox Everyone complains of his memory, no one of > bob@immure.com his judgement. > Austin, TX -- anonymous > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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