I was surfing today and saw two points of interest that I thought may interest the debian community:
Intel is partnering with Sun Microsystems to offer "out-of-the-box" licensing for its 64 bit processor instead of Microsoft. The processor family will run Solaris (although by then Solaris will be written in Java and based on the Sprint project instead of SVR4 code, but its still Solaris instead of NT). This makes linux more comptetative in the commercial marketplace, wouldn't you say? Especially if Linux will be able to run Java programs natively, as Solaris will. I'm assuming, of course, that Linux will also be able to run on the 64 bit processor (since it already runs on axp's, ultras, and SGIs). Also, Tibco, a major commercial company specializing in messaging middleware for the financial industry, now officially supports Linux for its newest messaging technology (as well as FreeBSD). As the financial community deploys rendezvous based technology, Linux machines can be a drop in part of any heterogeneous distributed computing environment. See www.rv.tibco.com for details. That's one less excuse to keep linux out of the enterprise. All we need to do now is get some for real performance tuning and distributed system monitoring tools (-- more / better documentation and a "solutions" database wouldn't hurt either, but I think Bruce Perens is already on top of these issues). Cheers, -- "Until we extend the circle of our compassion to all living things, we will not ourselves find peace" -Albert Schweitzer Richard G. Roberto -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
