Star Hewlett Packard Superdome Demo Day
Linked by David Adams on Thu 29th Oct 2009 22:44 UTC
General Unix I had the pleasure earlier this month of attending a demo day at HP's Cupertino campus to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the Superdome server, see what's new in the high-end server market and learn about what's going on with HP-UX.
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RE: The IBM option
by kaiwai on Fri 30th Oct 2009 02:53 UTC in reply to "The IBM option"
kaiwai
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I think IBM pretty much cleans shop at megaservers with the ultra speedy POWER6+ p 595. Itanium has yet to pay any dividends for HP. The only reason I'd consider the HP option would be if we had legacy HP-UX apps.

With IBM, you can run any mix of Linux, AIX, and i OS. Linux on POWER is second only to x86, AIX is pretty close to HP-UX but probably better for DB2 and Oracle, while i OS has a large presence in companies that have been around awhile.

POWER7 will be lethal. It will be interesting to see if Oracle/Sun can keep up. Intel seems to not really care about Itanium.


I'm actually surprised that Itanium is still being developed given how far the x86-64 has come - personally, I'd love to see HP port OpenVMS to x86-64 and sell workstations and servers pre-loaded with OpenVMS on it ;) x86-64 with some effort on chipset design can be just as reliable as Itanium but without the massive cost involved and prohibitively high development costs.

Oh well, its only a dream ;)

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