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IBM has [released a new beta software program][1] that allows Linux based x86 apps to run on the company's PowerPC Unix servers. The new software, called IBM System p Application Virtual Environment, uses the same technology that powered Apple's Rosetta software during the OS X migration to Intel chips.
Transitive, the company that provided the core technology of Apple's Rosetta virtualization software is also providing the core of IBM's new beta package. QuickTransit, as the underlying technology is known, allows software written for one hardware platform to be run on a different platform without being rewritten.
IBM says the new beta virtualization software came about because of customer demand for Linux apps on IBM's proprietary PowerPC System p Unix servers.
The new software should be available to the general sometime around the end of the summer. IBM reports that about 25 customers tested the software as a private beta before today's general release.
As anyone who used large, processor-intensive apps like Photoshop under Apple's Rosetta virtualization technology can attest, Transitive's core, while impressive for its seamless integration, is best suited to lightweight apps. On the server side that means database applications are probably better off when running natively.
[via [Information Week][2]]
[1]: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/linux/systempave.html?ca=p5&met=systempave&me=W&P_Site=p5hero "IBM System p Application Virtual Environment for x86 Linux"
[2]: http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199200608 "IBM Introduces x86 Linux Virtualization On System P Servers"
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