MicroHP — the New IT Giant?

storagedude writes "Although it may have gone unnoticed by most IT industry watchers, this week's announcement from Microsoft and HP that the two have combined on integrated appliances for corporate business intelligence and email could be the start of a closer relationship between the two IT giants as they seek to counteract the growing hardware and software dominance of IBM and Oracle. From the article: 'Combine Microsoft and HP — call it MicroHP — and what do you have? A full Windows-plus-Linux scale-out hardware and software lineup, with an exceptionally strong position both in SaaS/public cloud and data centers, and a huge presence on the business desktop. This would allow such a combined entity to produce well-tuned appliances for such hot areas as BI/analytics — as Microsoft and HP have just done.'"

Sounds like MicroHyPe

[h00manist]

So Microft and HP joined up to hype some stuff. Big news.

Linux != all *nixes

[The O Rly Factor]

I don't really think HP-UX, HP's proprietary bastard child of System V and Tru64, can be called "Linux"

Re:R&D at Microsoft

[the linux geek]

A couple off the top of my head -

-LINQ
-Singularity (a managed-code operating system, designed for high reliability)
-Photosynth
-Work on robotics
-Work on application acceleration with FPGA's
-The F# programming language

Whether or not you like Microsoft, or qualify these as "breakthroughs," MSR does more public R&D than just about anyone else in the industry with the possible exception of IBM.