[Info-vax] OT(?): Linux: developed by corporates. *NOT* developed by unpaid volunteers.

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Saturday, 28 March 2015 21:36:35 UTC, JF Mezei  wrote:
> On 15-03-28 16:24, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > What I will say is that if Linux doesn't run (well) on Proliant, that
> > would presumably be a rather shortsighted move on HP's part. 
> 
> HP _could_ produce the patches and drivers specific to its server
> designs and make them available separately, which means they wouldn't
> been seen as a contribution to Linux itself since they wouldn't be
> included in the generic distros. (I use "could* here to show on possible
> way where HP's Linux spending/contreobutions would not be counted in
> those statistics of contributors to Linux).
> 
> > [1] Not a comment, a question: What HP-unique middleware/LPs is there
> > (for x86-64) these days anyway? Some HP-UX derived stuff, maybe?
> 
> At the start of the BCS wind down, HP had made statements that they
> would be shifting much of the HP-UX enterprise software to Linux to make
> it easier for customer to migrate. (this was early in Meg Whitman's
> tenure). There was even a code name for this program "Project Odyssey"
> I don't think anything came of it.  But HP was using that "project" in
> its financial teleconferences to provide confidence that HP was able to
> bridge the gap between its legacy BCS that was going down fast and new
> focus on industry standard servers with Windows-Linux as its new
> enterprise strategy.
> 
> 
> One aspect of HP's enterprise is that they are good at using buzzwords,
> but apepar to hve difficulty in delivering specifics.
> 
> I do believe however that its system/network management software HP
> Openview (it may have been renamed to "OneView") would support Linux,
> but not sure if the management station runs on Linux).

Openview is a buzzword (a marketechture), it's not a specific product.

If you want to be very generous you could call it a family of products.

But see what you find if you look for Openview on a famous search engine. 
The paid-for result (paid by HP?) says go to www.hp.com/OpenView 
So, have a look there. Can you work out what are they offering that
customers can buy?

Back to Proliant - the Linux-specific stuff to make Proliant servers
work *well* with Linux used to be shipped with a thing called a
SmartStart CD which came with Proliant servers and support contracts.
No idea what the current state of play is.

In passing: for unrelated reasons, as I'm tryping this I'm also
installing an old SuSe64 (11.0) on an old Proliant DL360 g4. It works
out of the box, but there is no visible HPQ added value. Then again, I
didn't bother with the SmartStart CD - why would I, if the HPQ input
had been incorporated into the default Linux stuff. From the HPQ
website it *looks* as though the first HPQ-suppored DL360 for SUSE
Linux is the DL360 g5. So maybe I shouldn't be trying this with the
g4/11.0 combo anyway. 


As the sUsE folks like to say: Have a lot of fun.