IBM to sell Sun Solaris on x86 and mainframes; pigs fly

Morshad published 20 Aug 2007, 19:04 in main - 215 views

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Jaws hit the floor in collective surprise when rivals IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. announced last week that IBM has agreed to sell Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 operating system subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers.

During a press conference on Thursday, August 16, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz and IBM Senior Vice President and Group Executive William Zeitler jointly presented the news.

The companies will jointly invest in system optimization to make Solaris run as efficiently as possible on IBM servers. Sun will provide support for Solaris.

To date, IBM has supported SUSE Linux, Red Hat and various Windows offerings.

News source: SearchDataCenter

Tags: IBM, Sun Solaris

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