InformationWeek Article on "New Plans for UNIX"

In Micheal Healey's report on state of the UNIX industry, he mentions that the main UNIX/Linux hardware vendors "are retooling UNIX to play a greater role in the virtualized data center.". The three main UNIX vendors listed are IBM, HP, and Oracle-Sun.

I couldn't agree more. Virtualization is and will be the driving force for growth in the large scalable SMP systems. I see virtualization as the logic step before the up coming massive move to the cloud. The other new driver will be the Oracle-Sun solution sales team going head to head with IBM. Most IT shops I have had the privilege of working with, would love to reduce the number of vendors that they have to deal with. The do not want to go down to just one, but two would be just about right. I am sure most of us noticed that in one quarter after the Oracle acquisition of Sun, they added $500,000.00 in profit to Oracle.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.