On Friday 09 December 2005 05:31, Amol Hatwar wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 21:01 +0530, JTD wrote:
On Friday 09 December 2005 01:24, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thursday 08 December 2005 05:29, JTD wrote:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3568991
In contrast to the above billy baba's pontifications on talking pc and "free computers" (the irony) sounds cretaceous. If he were browsing the net he would have heard of festival - if his box wasn't zombied.
rgds jtd
T1000 and T2000 servers?!
yes. with 2 to 8 cores and umpteen taiwanese fabs and linux should be priced at free? IBM has some serious competition
Seems like everyone is opening up their goodie chest. But, I don't think IBM really has serious competition. At least as long as Sun advocates Slo(w)aris.
Slo(w)aris is now nearly lawaris. So by opening the hardware they hope to get sufficient developer push from linux. The only thing that slows down libre software is restricted hardware specs. Open that and your hardware soars in the market. AMD 64bit. There are innumerable small niche markets which large companies find impossible to cater to. Taken together they form a sizable chunk. Opening up the specs allows the eco system to be filled and enriched and grow. Periodically some combination of hardware, software and service fires up the market providing opportunity for the big boys.
rgds jtd