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ZDNet: Sun: IBM’s Solaris-Linux Migration Offer is “Act of Desperation”

“Sun wasted no time in responding to IBM’s annoucement
(yesterday) that it had formalized a Solaris-to-Linux migration
program and that it would be providing migration assessments at no
charge. The move by IBM isn’t just a shot at Sun. Throughout IBM’s
discussion of the project, Big Blue is placing more than the
average amount of emphasis on it OpenPower architecture (found in
its i and p series servers). Over the last year, IBM has been
turning up the server heat on both Microsoft (with Linux) and Intel
(with OpenPower)…”

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