Linux's Next Frontier: Database-Intensive Apps
Database-intensive applications are the next frontier for Linux, but those applications need to be ported to the open-source operating system.
When that happens, Linux will become the operating system of choice for many users. But this requires the cooperation of the ISV community, who are still being pushed along this path.
Strong adoption growth is also in the cards for this year and next with Linux having clearly moved from its initial infrastructure and high volume back-office uses to more analytical uses, including risk management, portfolio management and profitability analysis.
Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein runs its portfolio risk management on Linux, using 80 Intel-based xSeries 4000R servers deployed in Linux clusters.
"There will be multiple drivers for this, including lower cost (a 25 percent to 30 percent savings); the fact that it is now easy to justify the short-term ROI; its ability to run on multiple hardware platforms; and Linux's proven on-demand availability.
"The next and final frontier will be moving custom database-intensive applications like Sybase to Linux"
IBM is doing its part to drive the porting of applications to the Linux platform: Its new Chiphopper program encourages ISVs to port their software applications that run primarily on x86 hardware to all its hardware platforms.
Chiphopper, which refers to chips hopping from x86 to IBM's zSeries and Power architectures, will automate the process of porting across different hardware and chip architectures for ISVs. "Linux is not about free, it's about freedom"
Scott Handy, IBM's vice president for Linux, in Somers, N.Y., told eWEEK recently that IBM already has some 6,000 applications that run on Linux x86—a number it plans to double by the end of 2007—as well as 1,000 on Linux on Power. It also expects more of those 6,000 applications to come across to Power and zSeries.
In another session dealing with virtualization technology, Pat Aughavin, the vice president of business development for DataSynapse Inc., said virtualization provides a business opportunity, including improving response time by three times or more and significantly improving throughput.
Application silos create operational inefficiency and its GridServer product provides a virtual operating environment, which improves agility and responsiveness and helps enhance service levels.
When that happens, Linux will become the operating system of choice for many users. But this requires the cooperation of the ISV community, who are still being pushed along this path.
Strong adoption growth is also in the cards for this year and next with Linux having clearly moved from its initial infrastructure and high volume back-office uses to more analytical uses, including risk management, portfolio management and profitability analysis.
Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein runs its portfolio risk management on Linux, using 80 Intel-based xSeries 4000R servers deployed in Linux clusters.
"There will be multiple drivers for this, including lower cost (a 25 percent to 30 percent savings); the fact that it is now easy to justify the short-term ROI; its ability to run on multiple hardware platforms; and Linux's proven on-demand availability.
"The next and final frontier will be moving custom database-intensive applications like Sybase to Linux"
IBM is doing its part to drive the porting of applications to the Linux platform: Its new Chiphopper program encourages ISVs to port their software applications that run primarily on x86 hardware to all its hardware platforms.
Chiphopper, which refers to chips hopping from x86 to IBM's zSeries and Power architectures, will automate the process of porting across different hardware and chip architectures for ISVs. "Linux is not about free, it's about freedom"
Scott Handy, IBM's vice president for Linux, in Somers, N.Y., told eWEEK recently that IBM already has some 6,000 applications that run on Linux x86—a number it plans to double by the end of 2007—as well as 1,000 on Linux on Power. It also expects more of those 6,000 applications to come across to Power and zSeries.
In another session dealing with virtualization technology, Pat Aughavin, the vice president of business development for DataSynapse Inc., said virtualization provides a business opportunity, including improving response time by three times or more and significantly improving throughput.
Application silos create operational inefficiency and its GridServer product provides a virtual operating environment, which improves agility and responsiveness and helps enhance service levels.
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