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06.16.08

Microsoft Takes Experiments with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 a Little Further

Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Servers at 7:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Novell recently bragged about SUSE's presence in supercomputers, but Novell also offers an adoption ramp for Microsoft Windows in supercomputers. This should hardly be surprising given that the company’s CEO recently said: “our partnership with Microsoft continues to expand.”

The story we refer to here is about dual-booting SUSE with Windows. In the news we now find this.

Windows dual boots its way onto a Linux stage

Windows may never boot Linux from its dominant role in high performance computing, but Microsoft’s dual-boot strategy is making some inroads. IBM says it has built what may be the largest Windows/Linux HPC dual-boot system yet for a university research group in Sweden.

Will Microsoft welcome dual-booting with GNU/Linux on desktops and laptops? Of course not. █

“The integration of WCCS [Windows Compute Cluster Server] into the Linux SUSE environment enables users to submit jobs to the Platform LSF scheduler for execution on WCCS.”

–Microsoft

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2 Comments

  1. Michael said,

    June 17, 2008 at 12:16 am

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    Wow, what a stupid idea! Then again, it’s just marketing.

    My bet it was sponsored by MS in the hope of getting windows in the top-50 list (from what I can tell, windows’ highest is 106 in the current top 500).

  2. Roy Schestowitz said,

    June 17, 2008 at 12:54 am

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    That would be predictable under some circumstances. Microsoft is at the moment being caught ‘bribing’ for companies to adopt Silverlight and then pretending, using bogus figures, that the use of Silverlight is growing fast. Also consider this older story:

    Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft report, which found that GoDaddy.com’s migration from Linux to Windows caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus for OpenSourceParking.com?

    [Bruce] Perens: Not the first. It’s part of a continuing behavior pattern by Microsoft that I think it’s fair to call “dirty fighting.” GoDaddy was using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical solution. They didn’t switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I’ve changed many servers from one thing to another, but I’ve never made a press release about it. GoDaddy wouldn’t be doing that unless Microsoft had offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.

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