On 22/12/10 12:39, Adam Bolte wrote:
I found this statement surprising. I studied at a Melbourne university, and when I spoke to lecturers of FOSS, one lecturer even went so far as to call those people "crazy.. and will do themselves out of a job". The IT department was run almost exclusively by Solaris.
FWIW the HPC[0] systems at the University of Melbourne are almost entirely Linux based, with the only exception I'm aware of being the Compute Node Kernel (CNK) in our BlueGene/P at VLSCI (which is released [1] under the IBM CPL[2], OSI approved but not GPL compatible). [0] - High Performance Computing [1] - http://wiki.bg.anl-external.org/index.php/Cnk [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Public_License cheers, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC