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Customer choice is the differentiator –Says IBM and Sun.
By John | August 16, 2007
Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM hardware group chief Bill Zeitler agreed that offering customers more choices is the bottom line. Bill used IBM’s dealing with Linux as a good example, noting that, when IBM wanted to go to Linux, many were concerned about its effects on IBM’s OS products. In the end, IBM increased revenue on all its platforms, including pSeries AIX. Jonathan further confirmed the principle of greater choice for customers by using the free Solaris as an example. Under this agreement, IBM becomes an official Tier 1 OEM under Sun. Nothing will change, however, for 90 days until the agreement is formalized. The driver and server optimization will be ongoing. IBM will provide server optimization, possibly looking into features such as the Director line support, and Sun will provide driver optimization.
Here are some high lights from the Q&A
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Solaris 10 on blade centers and system x.
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Driver optimization by Sun
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Server optimization by IBM
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System Z on the target list… IIBM wants this to happen. You should look to see this happen in the future Bill. John: Mainframe set the standard. Solaris Virtualization on Logical partitioning could be very good value for customers. The tenor is that our eyes are wide open.
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Maybe IT director support in the future (Bill) not working on this now.
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pSeries collaboration not on the table right now.
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HP discussions are arms length and IBM is the strongest.
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John: Mainframe set the standard. Solaris Virtualization on Logical partitioning could be very good value for customers. The tenor is that our eyes are wide open.
Topics: 451, esm, gartner, ibm, sun |
