Not strictly FUD. More a sort of “Rage, Rage, Against the dying of the light.”
Today, many businesses buy generic x86 servers and then add Linux to them. Many of the companies I know have made Linux servers out of older servers or workstations. Still others buy cheap new x86 servers without any operating system and then put a free Linux distribution on them.
First sentence: an unfounded and unsupported proposition. Other sentences: move those goalposts, brother!
Take my own office, where I’m currently running five Linux servers. None of them came with pre-installed Linux.
WorksForMe™!
Weta Digital, the company behind Avatar’s spectacular special effects, used 35,000 cores on 4,000+ HP blades running Ubuntu to render the movie.
Multi-Durden Render Stations Are So Servers!
Guess what? HP doesn’t sell its servers with Ubuntu.
No shit, Sherlock. Server Wars II: Ubuntu! Coming soon to a desktop near you!
In this study, IDC isn’t measuring server virtualization. So, for example, while IDC measures IBM mainframe sales, it doesn’t measure how companies are consolidating thousands of hardware servers on System z mainframes running thousands of Linux virtual machines.
WHAT???
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Comment number 2: “I’m from India, here we talk very less about Linux, but i heard that almost in all part of the European countries Linux is the default OS everyone used to operate in computer. Is that true?”
Answer my friend: NO
It’s funny because I sometimes hear freetards saying, that Linux is actually big in asia where people can’t afford the super expensive windows … blablabla … whereas here we don’t see it because ms is abusing it monopoly shipping every computer …. blablabalblablalb
Oh, and the article itself is also good. Probably not real FUD but a very good example of the 5-stage theory of grief. This would be a nice “denial” : “Linux is doing fine” lol
What are you talking about? Everyone knows about the successful transitions of the Vienna and Munich city councils to Linux!! Oh, wait…
I’m still waiting for a plausible explanation of the System Z thing. Has snickerdouche finally eaten SJVN’s brain?
And did he wash it down with a nice bottle of Chianti?
“... mainframes running thousands of Linux virtual machines”
Probably its “virtual” in the sense of a Gedankenexperiment?
Good effort, but I’m not convinced.
Where do you plug your Terabyte Ethernet connection in to your Gedankenexperimente?
What happens if the Higgs Boson travels back through time to destroy it? (Oh, I know the answer to that one. Use a Linux SuperComputer.)
How much would it cost to buy, commission, install, and support a second System Z, running all those thousands of virtual machines as a warm backup?
And will IBM Spanner Monkeys actually support the thing?
These are just a few inessential matters that SJVN, soi-disant “expert on operating systems,” has yet to address. I await his next post with interest.
My day job is at an animation studio, we have a render farm, running Linux, no less. But guess what, that render farm is totally separate from our business servers!
Being a cheap OS that hosts headless render clients does NOT mean its a good server solution for businesses!
That’s not fair.
You’ve never bought an IBM mainframe and tried to scale the business up with thousands of virtual Ubuntu desktops/servers.
Or …. have you? (Cue music from Psycho).
I just happened to notice how the article of z/VM at wikipedia states: “It can be used to support large numbers (thousands) of Linux virtual machines. (See Linux on System z.)”
I sure not hope SJVN read just writes in his posts what somebody wrote at some point somewhere on the internet, while having no clue what he’s writing about!
^CHRISTX
Gosh. SJVN is a respected journalist and self-proclaimed “cyber-cynic.” I’m sure he wouldn’t resort to Wikipedia (God bless them), who even use this phrase:
“The neutrality of this article is disputed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries is well worth a read. Full’O'FUD. I particularly enjoyed the ASCII/EBCDIC bleating — well, that’s one obstacle out of the way!
'There are few barriers to doing so as IBM offers a no-charge 30-day Linux on zSeries “test drive”’. It just gets better and better, doesn’t it? After that, IBM will charge you something in five figures (plus another something in five figures for backup, plus support, plus plus plus). Or, you can buy it on EBay (this is hysterical): “A Linux-capable 64-bit mainframe starts at about $40,000 (z800 model 0E1, U.S. early 2008 used system price on Ebay) plus the cost of external disk array plus console and network interconnects.”
This is beginning to look like a really bad Hitchcock movie. (And, believe me, all Hitchcock movies are really bad Hitchcock movies.)
And here’s a weird one from Novell: http://www.novell.com/promo/linuxsystemz.html?campaign=UK_and_Eire_Linux_Server&keyword=system%20z%20linux&site=&network=Search&gclid=CMD95-mjp6ACFZFo4wodnDA6gw
Do I hate Novell? Do I love IBM? Who the fark is that weird shaven Santa Claus with his hands fondling his bollocks? Will he fondle mine if I buy into this crap?
Who knows?
(That was meant to be six figures, btw. I ran out of fingers, and my cousin from Arkansas was busy chatting up his sister…)
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