Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: userspace breakage | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:17:09 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:54 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: [....] > The fact that Oracle and IBM support apps on Linux are Freeloading? Baloney! > Linux benefits by having the choice of al these applications.
Do they have binary-only kernel modules or user-space apps?
> (P.S. I have heard through the grapevine IBM is putting emphasis on AIX > as their platform and are actively telling this to large customers -- > can you verify this and are you aware of it)
Not knwoing any inner IBM things, the simple commercial explanation is: If a customer buys AIX, he is forced to buy the hardware at IBM. And IBM is a hardware selling (and consulting) company anyways, it never was a "software company".
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
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