From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 20 6:30:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.stox.sa.enteract.com (unknown [199.179.173.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8965115784 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 06:29:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@stox.sa.enteract.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.stox.sa.enteract.com [127.0.0.1]) by m4.stox.sa.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA12211; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:26:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:26:23 -0500 (CDT) From: "Kenneth P. Stox" Reply-To: stox@enteract.com To: Wes Peters Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NT4 server 2.5 times faster than Linux In-Reply-To: <371BFF76.227D7B18@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Sun? IBM? Intel? > > > > > > Oh that's right, they're all too small to count. But they did beat > > > SGI to the punch on the Linux thing. > > > > Well, I'm not so sure about that. What technology has Sun, IBM, or Intel > > agreed to to donate to Linux right now ? I know Sun has made Java open, > > but have they donated any technology directly to the O/S ? > > Sun gave them a StarFire to play with. Is that enough? How many multi- > million dollar machines do they need? ;^) > > IBM has sent several dozen workstations and a couple of large SMP > servers to their Linux PPC partner, somewhere in Florida. Motorola > has 3 engineers doing full-time support for Linux on their CPU boards > over in Computer Division. > > SGI is already dead, they just haven't bothered to fall over yet. > Their executive staff have been driving them into the ground for > years, so it's not surprising. When I said donating technology, I meant things like XFS ( although SGI has not stated that this is one of the technologies ). Is IBM going to donate JFS and the volume management software ? -Ken Stox stox@enteract.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message