To: Rusty Johnson who wrote (2278 ) 7/22/2000 4:10:01 AM From: JC Jaros Respond to Pffft - These guys have so many initiatives they don't know what to init. --- IBM is not (IMO) the friend to free*nix geeks it likes to insist it is in their PRs. --- After following this stuff, I'm to the point where I think much less about IBM as a company. --- Here's the deal: IBM is developing Monterey UNIX to augment AIX in the Intel space. Instead of using Linux, they are making there own retro-proprietary Unix. You know why IBM is such a big booster of Linux? Because they're (admittedly) angling in on porting free Linux aps to Monterey. --- At least SUNW is giving the Linux community useful development tools (which is why IBM's JVM will be also ran. --- IBM is expoiting Linux in the ugliest way, I think. --- You gotta be happy that they've signed on Caldera to provide (finally) Linux on the Thinkpads, except now I'm reading that Caldera may be buying SCO (the other half of the Monterey project - and sold off a big chunk if not all or most of it's RHAT equity). --- IBM talks about how they're the
true and good friend to Linux. Then they talk about how immature it is compared to AIX and Monterey (which doesn't even exist yet). Truly Linux isn't as robust as the commercial unices. MAYBE, just *maybe it's more robust than an operating system that doesn't exist yet? --- Anyway, I think the most important thing to know about Linux off of the desktop is FreeBSD. --- If I were Red Hat Linux, I'd be kicking myself for naming the business that. I mean, if the more robust and unicly pure FreeBSD (BSD lites) are increasingly supporting the Linux range of apps (and J2EE - Java), iincluding easy ports of the slick GUI connect the dots installs, 'the thing that works' which is how I heard Linux best described once is running in second place to 'the thing that works better' in a very important metric or two. --- Anyway, they all end up with UltraSPARC and getting Sun Certified. --- I hold large Jethro bowl ammounts of SUNW and have all along proclaimed it as *the (my) Linux play. I do not own RHAT. I do own a littl
CORL because I want to be Marlen's personal beta tester and pool man when her wierd husband;s out of town. I hold a little bit of CALD. I'd own more if they'd have rolled Lineo (embedded Linux/DOS) into CALD. --- Anyway, when IBM says Linux, they mean "Monterey". -JCJ
