Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 13:13 UTC
IBM has revamped its entry-level Unix servers with new processors and an Integrated Virtualisation Manager aimed at the SME market, and launched a vitriolic attack on rival Sun Microsystems. Launching four new servers, three of them based on the new Power5+ processor, as well as a 16-way system for the high-end, IBM claimed leadership in power and performance in the low-end Unix systems market.
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Can someone please explain why someone (or even some corporation) would pay $9000 for something that specwise doesn't seem to be all that hot?
If you have over $10,000 worth of AIX applications and you want them to run faster, it's cheaper to buy a POWER5 than to re-buy all your applications for AMD64. Also, POWER5 has better floating-point performance than Opteron or Xeon.