In comp.os.linux.advocacy, #null#
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on 8 Sep 2006 05:13:11 -0700
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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Microchips Shipped for Nintendo's Wii
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>> | IBM Corp. said it has shipped the first microprocessors that will be used
>> | to power Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Wii video game console.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | Nintendo is hoping to sell 6 million Wii consoles during the fiscal
>> | year ending March 2007.
>> `----
>>
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060908/ibm_nintendo.html?.v=2
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> Big blue could care less about being lienud friendly. Big blue only
> care about making money and that means selling AIX.
Not necessarily. It means selling *product*. Big blue's product
includes a mixture of hardware and software.
Or had you forgotten about the zx90 mainfram system? *That's* what
they're selling.
At some point they'll want to run Windows on it, of course.
(That can be done in a number of ways. Unfortunately, I lack
sufficient understanding of z-OS to indicate where to start.)
> You really that
> stupid to think that big blue going to throw away AIX after investing
> billions of dollars in it and push lienux instead?
Sure, if Linux is easier for them to maintain. :-) NRE is an expense
too.
>
> And if big blue so lienux friendly then why do 90% of desktop machine
> at big blue run Windows? And why do nearly 100% of laptop machine at
> big blue run Windows?
>
> Oh yeah - big blue is so into lienux.
>
It's a means to an end.
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