By: Paul DeMone (pdemone.delete@this.igs.net), August 29, 2006 1:44 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Paul (no@thanks.com) on 8/29/06 wrote:
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>Paul DeMone (pdemone@igs.net) on 8/29/06 wrote:
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>>"In the four-year period 2002 to 2005, customers spent nearly $1.2 billion on Itanium®-based
>>servers running Linux. This is second only to x86-based servers and almost six
>>times as much as on all RISC-based servers running Linux combined."
>
>How much of that is concentrated in Altix though?
Probably less than half.
>In any case if you buy SPARC
>you're going to run Solaris on it and if you buy POWER then you are probably going
>to run AIX on it.
A significant portion of POWER based servers sold
run OS/400, not AIX.
>Therefore I wouldn't expect Linux on SPARC/POWER/PA-RISC etc to
>have anything more a smattering of background users.
>
Perhaps. Nevertheless Linux on POWER is a major
push for IBM. IMO the spectacular preference of IBM
customers for its x455 IPF server over POWER for
Linux was a major reason for IBM killing its IPF line.
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>Paul DeMone (pdemone@igs.net) on 8/29/06 wrote:
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>>"In the four-year period 2002 to 2005, customers spent nearly $1.2 billion on Itanium®-based
>>servers running Linux. This is second only to x86-based servers and almost six
>>times as much as on all RISC-based servers running Linux combined."
>
>How much of that is concentrated in Altix though?
Probably less than half.
>In any case if you buy SPARC
>you're going to run Solaris on it and if you buy POWER then you are probably going
>to run AIX on it.
A significant portion of POWER based servers sold
run OS/400, not AIX.
>Therefore I wouldn't expect Linux on SPARC/POWER/PA-RISC etc to
>have anything more a smattering of background users.
>
Perhaps. Nevertheless Linux on POWER is a major
push for IBM. IMO the spectacular preference of IBM
customers for its x455 IPF server over POWER for
Linux was a major reason for IBM killing its IPF line.
| Topic | Posted By | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/29 01:06 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul | 2006/08/29 01:35 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/29 01:44 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Peter | 2006/08/30 04:09 AM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/30 05:00 AM |
| Linux and IPF | Rob Thorpe | 2006/08/30 05:50 AM |
| Linux and IPF | mas | 2006/08/30 10:35 AM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/30 11:07 AM |
| Linux and IPF | mas | 2006/08/30 11:26 AM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/30 12:15 PM |
| Linux and IPF | mas | 2006/08/30 12:38 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Linus Torvalds | 2006/08/30 07:34 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Rob Thorpe | 2006/08/31 01:36 AM |
| Linux and IPF | blah | 2006/08/31 11:57 AM |
| Linux and IPF | Gumbercules | 2006/08/30 12:29 PM |
| Linux, PPC and IPF | David Kanter | 2006/08/30 12:57 PM |
| Linux, PPC and IPF | jofajafa | 2006/08/30 03:31 PM |
| Linux, PPC and IPF | A. N. Onymous | 2006/08/30 09:16 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Peter | 2006/08/30 11:23 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Paul DeMone | 2006/08/31 05:02 AM |
| Linux and IPF | jofajafa | 2006/08/29 04:22 PM |
| Linux and IPF | Michael S | 2006/08/30 12:42 AM |
| Linux and IPF | jofajafa | 2006/08/30 03:09 PM |
| Linux and IPF | blah | 2006/08/31 12:05 PM |