A look at the SCO complaint [LWN.net]

A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 10, 2003 12:29 UTC (Mon) by fnesper (guest, #10042)
In reply to: A look at the SCO complaint by komarek
Parent article: A look at the SCO complaint

Well, the scary part for BIG Blue is the 'revoke license of AIX in 100 days'
part. Not so much the risk of it happening, but the fact that customers might
chose not to buy IBM hardware due to that risk. Just to get that threat out
of the way, would be worth the 30M$ that SCO costs.

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A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 10, 2003 13:56 UTC (Mon) by mrlee (guest, #6760) [Link]

They could chose Linux instead of AIX on IBM hardware ;-)

A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 11, 2003 9:25 UTC (Tue) by fnesper (guest, #10042) [Link]

He he, been hearing that a couple of times lately.
But the software to run on Linux on pSeries hardware isn't there yet.
And to be honest, neither is Linux, the highend Unix hardware offers
a lot of things, that just aren't there on IA32 or most IA64 boxes. And Linux doesn't have the code to use these things, like AIX does. I believe it _will_ come over the next years, but there are lot of things like bootlist manipulation, dynamic cpu deallocation, first failure data capture, diagnostics, workload manger, dynamic and static logical partitioning etc etc.