HP, Red Hat chase Solaris shops
Server maker Hewlett-Packard and commercial Linux juggernaut Red Hat have teamed up to help shops using Oracle's Sparc/Solaris platforms make the jump to Linux-based x64 iron. While the two companies did not say so, the migrations services being offered today through HP Services are no doubt a reaction to Oracle's spiking of HP' …
Red Hat also teamed up with IBM called Sundown:
http://www.redhat.com/sundown/
Which is strange if IBM really still has their Solaris agreement.
Anyways, as an old Alpha fanboi, I refuse to touch anything HPaq related, since they killed off Alpha & Tru64.
All of the vendors have migration services and discounts, etc, etc, etc... Why TPM chose to bring up this (rebranded?) service, I have no idea. Slow news day?
HP has migration services for IBM, Compaq and Oracle. Oracle has migration services for IBM and HP. IBM has migration services for HP and Oracle. Every once in a while they put a press release stating this fact and the press gets all wet trying to tell us why they are doing this... Short memories perhaps?
HP was going to buy RedHat, but Microsoft came up with a deal for 900M+ to make HP focus on Windows. HP hired 100+ people and now is Microsoft aligned and trying to move customers from Solaris to Microsoft instead of RedHat.
So much for HP being a top RedHat supplier...we recently moved to SystemX as it has a real 8 socket Intel box and are looking at Power7 to replace our Fujitsu M-class systems.
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The new bit is that TPM managed to write an article about an hp service without turning it into an attack piece on Itanium! The other new bit is how he didn't mention the IBM alternatives and automatically declare them better than hp's offerings.
TPM, are you feeling OK?
Will any of these groups get a clue and understand that I don't want x86 because its hardware protection is always buggy? It always has been and so far every new chip has new and interesting ways to get around page table protection.
