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Afterthought about the Transitive deal

Wednesday, November 19. 2008

Hmm, it will be interesting to see where the acquisition of Transitive by IBM will leave Apple (Rosetta is a Transitive technology) or SGI (their ability to execute Irix/MIPS code on their Linux based systems). At least the last system can be viewed as a competition to IBM.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, The IT Business at 20:07 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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I posit that Transitive will be used to run X64 and Sparc code on Power chips. It's not good news for Sun, especially with Rock a year away. I hope Sun can get the T3 launched cleanly in mid 2009.

#1 Kevin Hutchinson on 2008-11-19 20:32 (Reply)

Even 5 GHz won´t give you an efficient and performant experience at translating between the two architectures and you have still the support issues ...

It´s just outright nonsense to emulate another ISA on a system, when those architectures are still easly available, either x86 nor SPARC is such an architecture.

#1.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2008-11-19 21:44 (Reply)

I don't see this as an x86 play. In my opinion IBM isn't really interested in its x86 bussiness. I think this is more about getting applications to run on Power and zLinux. No one codes for these platforms because AIX sucks and zSeries is too unquie. Transitive will give them an emulation layer to run Linux x86 apps on they're specialized hardware. They'll market it as greening you're datacenter by buying a mainframe or Power 570 and replacing you're x86 servers at unrealistic consolidation ratios.

#2 Alex on 2008-11-19 21:33 (Reply)

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