IBM to Sell Linux-Only Regatta Servers?
Source: The Regus
IBM Corp last week announced that it has delivered the AIX 5L Release 5.2 version of its Unix operating system for its pSeries RISC-Unix servers, writes Timothy Prickett-Morgan. While most Linux customers don't care much about what IBM does or does not do in the pSeries line, my sources at the company say that IBM might be readying a set of Linux-only Power4-based "Regatta" servers to take on the Unix installed base - including Big Blue's own AIX base. This would be a very interesting development, indeed.
IBM already supports Linux within logical partitions on the four-way pSeries 630 "Regatta-LE", the 16-way pSeries 670 "Regatta-M" and 32-way pSeries "Regatta-H" servers. With AIX 5L 5.2, which starts shipping next week, the pSeries Regatta line of machines gets support for dynamic logical partitions, which can be configured with AIX 5.1, AIX 5.2, or Linux 2.4.
