Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 28th Aug 2005 10:50 UTC, submitted by ajam
This seems to be a sensitive question for some people, particularly at Sun Microsystems. While IBM stated this week they had increased their market share over last year's, Sun also had its own press release this week claiming that it is the number one Unix platform server vendor in the world, in both revenue and unit shipments. It turns out they are both right.
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2005-07-08
There's a lot of "Open" talk at and around IBM, but I'm not sure the big-wigs really have a choice in the UNIX server space. They don't mention AIX much in high-level presentations, but then again they don't have to because AIX is an essential piece of the pSeries line at the moment. There is no question that IBM is committed to pSeries. The only two options are future commitment to AIX, or a skunkworks project to support the pSeries hardware (LPARs, enterprise storage, etc.) on Linux. I don't see the latter happening until the lawyers are through with the whole Project Monterrey nightmare that turned into the SCO suit.
pSeries and OpenPower are two different beasts, the latter being somewhat of a large hand-waving gesture. I truly think that IBM wanted to take Linux into the high-end of the UNIX server market, but SCO trashed those plans. Now we have a Linux/Solaris mix in the high-volume segments of the UNIX space (on Operton and SPARC) brought to you by Sun and AIX on pSeries in the high-end.
IBM will fight hard to keep its virtualization and enterprise management software ahead of Solaris, but the main story will be the hardware. SPARC is not able to support the needs of the high end, and neither Solaris nor Linux support pSeries hardware.