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What AMD's ATI acquisition means for Linux (and Macs) (Linux-Watch)What AMD's ATI acquisition means for Linux (and Macs) (Linux-Watch)Posted Jul 26, 2006 0:12 UTC (Wed) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)In reply to: What AMD's ATI acquisition means for Linux (and Macs) (Linux-Watch) by vondo Parent article: What AMD's ATI acquisition means for Linux (and Macs) (Linux-Watch) I think you're neglecting the influence of the resellers - a lot of those compute clusters need visualisation machines with decent 3D, and the same companies (HP, IBM, SGI et al) sell both systems together. A large part of their proposition is support, and they can support neither the hardware nor the OS if it requires closed drivers. Buy a graphics workstation with (say) RHEL and you can have your graphics or your enterprise support. At the moment there's little choice, but with ATI and AMD one and the same these companies can use their processor spending as leverage to get open drivers to end the support problems.
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