Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 8th Jul 2003 18:00 UTC
Today we host an interview with Christophe de Dinechin, Software Architect in HP-UX (Software business unit, Infrastructure Solutions). Most of you already know HP-UX, the leading "traditional" UNIX today feature-wise (second only to Solaris in Unix market-share, mostly competing with AIX). With Christophe we discuss HP-UX's competition, the other... 5 OSes HP supports with its various products, the Itanium platform and more.
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Good interview. But I disagree in some parts in special the "unfortunally paragraph": "The downside is that the GNUs tend to not do anything particularly well, with a few exceptions (BSD's security is an example). Linux doesn't scale exactly as well as HP-UX, and it's user interface is not yet as consistent and newbie-friendly as MacOS X. "
If GNU not do anything well, why HP/UX packaged Open Source applications? HP/UX have a better Web server than Apache (I know that is not GNU but is Open Source)? This friend doesn't use GCC?
In the same phrase, please remember that MacOS X is based in FreeBSD.
In the scalability side, as he knows, NEC has probed Linux scalability in one 32 Itanium 2 server and Intel report 600.000 tpmC in one 32-way Itanium 2 Linux server. Is not 600.000 tpmC @ 32 procesors very amazing compared to 750.000 tpmC @ 64 proc?
Regards,
Bryam