Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

Posted Apr 24, 2007 20:38 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com) by jwb
Parent article: Linux Ready For Real Time on Wall Street? (InternetNews.com)

I donno. Here is my guess:

The business case is probably that Linux is going to eventually replace proprietory Unix systems in the future.

The reason why this is going to happen?
Linux offers a single viable high performance platform that potentially scales all the way from embedded realtime systems, to multimedia handhelds, to personal computers, to servers, to high aviability systems, large enterprise workloads and upwards to supercomputers.

This avoids the pitfalls previously associated with propriatory Unix systems from the 90's were software incompatabilities, development difficulties, and high software prices drove people away from Unix systems.

A vendor being able to provide support for a second party unified software target for developers can not only save themselves a lot of money, but also save their customers a lot of money. Money they could be spending on new hardware, for instance.

So for HP's business case having Linux supported for their Nonstop stuff means that customers currently using Linux to run their web servers and databases and such things on x86-64 hardware would be able to migrate important services to Nonstop platform without a significant software-related cost penalty.

In other words: It makes it cheaper for people to buy these expensive systems. More profit goes to HP as more people are able to use and afford these systems.

For software stack support you have HP working on Carrier-Grade Linux. It's a Debian-based system for providing Linux support to telco hardware. Although it's probably much more generic then 'just debian'. A set of specifications any distribution can use.
http://old.linux-foundation.org/lab_activities/carrier_gr...
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5258815901.html

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