[geeks] IBM to offer Solaris on it's servers...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> 
>> If they did that, it would be tremendously stupid.  Solaris on  
>> POWER is
>> the last thing they should want.
> 
> There is Polaris, which is a port to PPC.  That would get close to  
> POWER.
> 
> Supposedly one of the targets is Sony PS3, which would be a pretty  
> inexpensive Solaris workstation.
> 
> see:
> 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=5

I'm not saying it's a bad idea for the end-user.  I'm saying it's a bad 
idea for IBM.

Peace...  Sridhar