As with any software that has had billions thrown behind it (except apparently MS software), the code becomes better.
IBM has done an awesome job of building it's own flavor of UNIX. They have done that by having building blocks of "certified" hardware that you can order.
In other words, you can't stick a 3Com ethernet card into an IBM RS/6000 and hope it works. You have to order the much more expensive IBM "certified" and "branded" option.
But, what you get from that money$$ is a guarantee that IBM's option will work 99.5% of the time. That's kind of important in an enterprise environment when you are doing upgrades on a Sunday night/Mon. morning during your window of 11:30PM-1AM.
Linux still struggles with that portion of it's admin stuff. Linux has done a pretty good job of trying to detail out by distro what cards will and will not work. They just are not there yet with a guarantee like IBM's, Sun's, HP's that if you stick card A from us in the server, IT WILL WORK, NO PROBLEM.
The good news is that it looks like enough major companies like IBM are throwing support behind Linux to enable it to become a true *NIX.
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Posted by: serpentine on August 26, 2004 11:15 AMIBM has done an awesome job of building it's own flavor of UNIX. They have done that by having building blocks of "certified" hardware that you can order.
In other words, you can't stick a 3Com ethernet card into an IBM RS/6000 and hope it works. You have to order the much more expensive IBM "certified" and "branded" option.
But, what you get from that money$$ is a guarantee that IBM's option will work 99.5% of the time. That's kind of important in an enterprise environment when you are doing upgrades on a Sunday night/Mon. morning during your window of 11:30PM-1AM.
Linux still struggles with that portion of it's admin stuff. Linux has done a pretty good job of trying to detail out by distro what cards will and will not work. They just are not there yet with a guarantee like IBM's, Sun's, HP's that if you stick card A from us in the server, IT WILL WORK, NO PROBLEM.
The good news is that it looks like enough major companies like IBM are throwing support behind Linux to enable it to become a true *NIX.
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