Sun and IBM = Solaris 10 and BladeCenter
James Governor has an interesting piece on a customer driven marriage of Sun and IBM. If you haven’t read, there’s some significant tension between Sun and IBM regarding Solaris 10.
The odd piece of this whole “disagreement” is IBM’s software strategy (WebSphere, DB2, MQ, Tivoli) has clearly been to move software and services regardless of hardware. Okay, so maybe IBM wouldn’t be happy if a company chose WebSphere on a Solaris 10 x86 box rather than a Linux x86 box, but they’ll still get the software and services. And I’m sure that there’s a group within IBM that doesn’t care about hardware.
So I think that some of Schwartz’s talk and IBM’s resonse is wave-making, but in the end, given the demand, IBM will support Solaris on x86….that’s got to be easier than Linux on every ThinkPad model.
