MAI & IBM, AIXMVP, Monterey

[asian1]

Hello
Recently MAI Logic (creator of Articia chipset on A1 and Pegasos board) received "Ready for IBM Technology" certificate from IBM. Other vendors who had received this certificate includes MontaVista (embedded Linux) and Wasabi (BSD).

MAI Logic Certificate

Is it possible for Hyperion (AmigaOS 4) and MorphOS to receive this certificate?

Another interesting IBM program is AIX Multi Vendor Program. This program involve porting AIX OS to various hardware, including Bull (France) and Motorola Computer Group.

AIX MVP

Is it possible for Eyetech / Amiga Inc / Genesi to join this program, because their motherboard is based on IBM CPU and MAI Articia, a chipset with "Ready for IBM Technology" certificate?

There is other AIX related project: Monterey. This UNIX 64 bit project is supported by IBM, Unisys, Bull, Bristol, Caldera, SCO, Oracle. With possibilities that the future Amiga / Pegasos motherboards will use IBM 64 bit PowerPC 970, perhaps Amiga / Genesi should join this project.

AIX & Monterey

[DaveP]

Ahhhh the monterey project.

/me stifles a chortle.

Ahem.

Why would Genesi and Eyetech want to help bring
about AIX on their boards? AIX is a killer Unix
implementation with the best package management
and systems management tools I have used ( period! ). If I could get AIX for A1 or Pegasos I would
throw MorphOS and AmigaOS right out the window.

I can see how the IBM scheme helps hardware manufacturers and vendors that are not trying to
develop their own "competing" OS projects but I
cannot see how specifically Genesi/Ainc/Eyetech
would hope to benefit?

Your A1, when it grows up, could run a Real (TM) OS?

;-)

Still interesting links, and interesting to hear that
the public at large has this impression of Montereys
progress.

[asian1]

Hello
AIX on AmigaOne / Pegasos / Teron (MAI Articia) will be an excellent OS, because the large amount of professional application software (Oracle, DB2, WebLogic, SAP etc).

Using MacOS X will be difficult because of EULA restriction.

For Linux, user can choose a lower cost platform: PC. User have to struggle with "recompiling and install" process, because most Linux program are not available on  "PowePC binaries format".

The number of Native PowerPC apps on AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is small.

The reply from IBM:

1. MAI Articia IS NOT Compatible with AIX. Apparently "Ready for IBM Technology" certificate does not involved "IBM AIX".

2. There is no AIX driver for Articia + Via Chipset. There is no SNAP AIX Graphic driver.

3. Members of AIX MVP should pay membership fee.

4. Project Monterey is for 64 Bit PowerPC, not 32 Bit PowerPC on MAI Articia motherboards.

My question:
A. Who can port AIX to Articia? Is it IBM, MAI or others?

B. Who will pay for the porting process?

C. Can Amiga, Eyetech, Genesi or MAI pay for the fee? Are they willing to pay the fee?