Enterprise Linux Conference

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I was referring to the big machines like the Superdome or Alpha GS series 
with 32 and up to 128 processors and NUMA memory. 8 to 12 processors is 
still relatively small.

One of the biggest issues with Linux in the enterprise today is the 
attitude that "any work we do on Linux can be used by our competitors". 
This is an important issue. IBM feels that they can recover the development 
cost by selling the iron. HP is also very strong in the Linux area, but did 
not make the committment to the kernel development that IBM did although 
HP/Compaq/Digital was essentially the first Unix vendor to embrace Linux 
back in 1994 (or earlier). Some of us can remember Jim Paradis demoing 
Linux on the Alpha back when we were part of the BCS.
David Kramer wrote:

> Speakers today were talking about Linux scaling well to 8 processors today, 
> and the next major kernel scaling up to 12 due to code IBM is folding back 
> into it from their own work.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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