IBM has marked its 10 years of participation in Linux and open source with an open source code contribution focused on supercomputing.
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yeah, open sourcing any form of unix these days takes a tremendous amount of money and luck as there is a lot of code in the aix code base not owned, but rather licensed, by ibm. sun open sourcing solaris took a tremendous amount of effort and capital that started several years before the opensolaris website went up, something most people tend to forget when they call for a company to open source their unix offering. for a product like aix, irix or even windows, giving away the source code would be next to impossible unless you have a lot of drive to do so, and more importantly, have a business reason for doing so. for sun, it was obvious: opensolaris is far more friendly to a common sysadmin compared to solaris 8 and 9....therefore, they are apt for more sales in their future with their existing and potential customers.
in any case, i've been very happy with ibm for the last 8 years and they've shown themselves to be true players in the open source market. dig deep in any of your linux distros and other software and you're going to find a lot of previously proprietary ibm software.
Edited 2008-08-06 18:47 UTC
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actualy my comment wasn't made ont he basis that everything should be open source, in fact i couldnt care less if the code is avalible or not as long as the product is good, solid, and does what i need.
i was only making the comment becuase this piece of news is the kind of thing you see on a slow media day where there isnt much to report, and the news in and of itself isnt all that interesting. 
Member since:2006-03-23
Its never enough is it? If Adobe open sourced flash, you'd complain that they didn't open source dreamweaver. "
no, if they opensourced flash, i would file a police report against them for trying to reenact the black plague..
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Yeah but what this open sourcing supercomputer something really means? I read the original article and didn't find much more information about whole thing. I mean this sounds same like Aston Martin announcing all DB9 owners get free carpets or something. Nice for them but is it any use for rest of us.
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But yes, we need Solaris, Irix, Aix, we actually need as much Unix as we can get. What we really need is to remove Windows from the current ecosystem.
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2005-07-13
i would have been more impressed to hear AIX being opensourced