[plug] [link] Nice fluff piece on Linux gutting the supercomputer market

[Leon Brooks]

    http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/4600425.htm

    [...] a growing number of car makers are spending much less on
    high-horsepower computing, turning to the open-source Linux
    operating system. [...]

    `This is a game-changer for any industry that has a
    high-performance computing workload,' said Steve Solazzo, IBM's
    general manager for Linux operations. [...]

    Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, also is trying to
    win business away from makers of Unix-based machines -- and
    steer customers away from Linux.

    Microsoft executives consider open-source software such as Linux
    the biggest threat to their business model.

    Sean McAlinden, an analyst at the Center for Automotive Research
    in Ann Arbor, Mich., [...] said Detroit's Big Three automakers
    alone have thousands of engineers performing technical tasks each
    day on computers that could be changed to Linux.

Cheers; Leon