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IBM acquires Transitive
Posted by Alessandro Perilli
| Wednesday, November 19, 2008
| 3 Comments
IBM announced today its intention to acquire Transitive, the company that offers an emulation layer (billed as cross-platform virtualization) to run applications on non-native hardware platform.
The company’s engine is behind the Apple Rosetta software that runs Mac OS applications for IBM PowerPC CPUs on Intel x86.
Transitive is also able to translate Sun Solaris applications developed SPARC architecture in a way that they can run on Linux on any x86/x64 or on Intel Itanium architecture.
In January 2008 Transitive also powered a special PowerVM Lx86 software offered by IBM, which allows to run Linux applications developed for any x86 architecture on IBM System p platforms with Power CPUs.
Probably IBM found the solution so interesting that decided to acquire the company.
The entity of the acquisition is unknown.
Labels: Acquisitions, IBM, Transitive
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3 Comments
Anonymous
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:06:00 PM
Hey !! what's a new!! I hope that IBM does not buy transitive to kill the capability of running mainframe binary on x86 platform... which is very interesting when you also use an hypervisor !!
So IBM could propose two solutions for customers: Just continue to buy expensive mainframe or buy transitive to migrate to x86 server. Chose your favorite way , don't matter, IBM will buy you something ;o)
So IBM could propose two solutions for customers: Just continue to buy expensive mainframe or buy transitive to migrate to x86 server. Chose your favorite way , don't matter, IBM will buy you something ;o)
I guess that if there are stupids out there that continue to buy expensive mainframes there must be good reasons if it was so simple then ... :-)
Sure a Fiat is much cheaper than a Ferrari but if you are in the F1 business.... of course you can "emulate" a Ferrari with some nice red painting but ....
Granted .. I drive a Fiat and I am very happy with it! But I am not in the F1 business.... I am in the "45 minutes to drive 12 Km to the office" business.....
Massimo.
P.S. I am not even sure that with Transitive you could run mainframe code onto x86 processors. Perhaps you will not see it any longer ... because it has never been there....?! :-)
Sure a Fiat is much cheaper than a Ferrari but if you are in the F1 business.... of course you can "emulate" a Ferrari with some nice red painting but ....
Granted .. I drive a Fiat and I am very happy with it! But I am not in the F1 business.... I am in the "45 minutes to drive 12 Km to the office" business.....
Massimo.
P.S. I am not even sure that with Transitive you could run mainframe code onto x86 processors. Perhaps you will not see it any longer ... because it has never been there....?! :-)
cathcam
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:26:00 PM
IBM is in the business of making money, it's unlikely we'd kill anything that made money. One thing that people often overlook in acquisitions like this is, that we are building plans that depend on the availability of a feature or function of the product. In doing so, we make an implied commitment to customers to continue to support and make that feature or function available, more so I would assert, than any other vendor in the industry. It's part of what buying IBM means and why customers are prepared to pay a premium.
There was always the chance that Transitive could have been acquired by another company, who'd have done exactly that to IBM, restricted our access to the feature or function. From that perspective IBM has to offset the cost of developing it ourselves, or acquiring. Pretty simple really.
These days we support many platforms with our software, I see no reason not to assume we will continue to do so with the Transitive acquisition, assuming it proceeds.
See also my blog entry on this for some related news.
http://cathcam.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/ibm-annouces-plans-to-acquire-transitive/
There was always the chance that Transitive could have been acquired by another company, who'd have done exactly that to IBM, restricted our access to the feature or function. From that perspective IBM has to offset the cost of developing it ourselves, or acquiring. Pretty simple really.
These days we support many platforms with our software, I see no reason not to assume we will continue to do so with the Transitive acquisition, assuming it proceeds.
See also my blog entry on this for some related news.
http://cathcam.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/ibm-annouces-plans-to-acquire-transitive/
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