“Adding higher calliber bullets to its server gun pointed at
Sun Microsystems, IBM on Tuesday announced it is bringing its
high-end AIX clustering software, referred to as Blue Hammer, over
to work under Linux.“
“Backing up that announcement, IBM also said that its Beaverton,
Ore.-based Linux laboratories plan to piece together customized
Intel-based Linux clustering solutions for targeted markets,
including ISPs/ASPs (application service providers) and the life
sciences. The company hopes to start delivering such solutions
sometime this summer.”
“Our message here is we are moving away from delivering raw
technology, where we ask customers to figure out for themselves
what to do with it, to building the specific solution they want
that best exploits clustering,” said Dave Turek, vice president of
Deep Computing with IBM’s Web Server group in Armonk, N.Y..”