[Info-vax] OT: IBM to invest $1B in Linux

[Michael Kraemer]

In article <4142c362-31fc-4cdb-8560-784113001765 at googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck
<n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
> What is strange to me is this: IBM is willing to fund Linux (an OS that IBM
> doesn't own) so that POWER has a future, while at the same time HP is
> unwilling to continue funding OpenVMS (an OS that HP does own) in order to
> keep Itanium going.
 
I guess it's not so much about "owning" or not,
but rather the idea that Linux might have more traction than AIX or "i".
>From a customer's point of view, Power+AIX are two proprietary products,
Power+Linux is just one. Might be an important aspect for customers
wanting to avoid "proprietary" products.
 
> 
> Makes me wonder if the people currently running HP know that Itanium
> originally started out as an HP project before they brought in Intel to help
> out.
> 
> NSR