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Rich T finds some tasty titbits you might have missed in the week's news
Friday 17 August 2007, 10:11 AM
Solaris on System x/BladeCenter
Oh, I so won't brag. But early indications reported in the News Blog yesterday turned out to be pretty much spot on. Sun has indeed started working with IBM to provide the option of the Solaris operating system running on IBM's x86-based System x and BladeCenter servers.
IBM's customers already had that option, of course, but the difference now is that IBM will add Solaris drivers and system optimisers to its systems and conduct testing for customers wanting the Sun OS.
Bill Zeitler, IBM vice president, said at the announcement last night, "IBM is the first major x86 vendor to have such an agreement with Sun; and the first big vendor apart from Sun to offer Solaris on blade servers."
The two companies are certainly enthusiastic about it. Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz was on hand taking a raft of questions on the subject.
Meanwhile, IBM will continue to invest in its own Unix-based OS, AIX.
My colleague Dawn Kawamoto takes up the story.
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