On Thu, 19 May 2005, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote: <snip> > 20 days after the purchase, IBM pulled out of Monterey, yet started > to sell their Monterey/Power platform (aka AIX 5L). IBM essentially > _squashed_ a _good_ Linux company overnight because it wanted > to be the _only_ dual-UNIX/Linux vendor. It saw Monterey/IA-64 > (UnixWare 8) as a competitor so it squashed it while it could. <snip> Hi, Bryan - Welcome to CentOS - I think I recognise some of this as recycled matter from SLUG or SLUG-politics list ;) -- Russ Herrold