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A Quarter-Million Dollar Box For A Free OS

Posted by timothy on from the eh-just-stick-it-in-the-corner dept.

popeyethesailor writes: "According to a CNET story, the server startup Egenera will be debut its high end Linux servers for financial services customers, running Red Hat Linux. An earlier CNETstory details their design." That's a hefty pricetag, but the companies they hope to sell to ("market--financial-services companies and service providers") aren't shy about investing in tools. Of course, an S/390 isn't cheap either, no matter how many GNU/Linux images it's running ;)

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  1. ??? by labratuk · · Score: 0, Redundant
    A $1/4 Million machine?

    With 96 Xeons in it?

    ...and they're lazy enough to just go and run RedHat on it?

    When this fucks up its not going to look good for the linux community.

    And yes this post is probably going to get me the most troll ratings I've ever had, but I had to say it.

    How can they be naive enough to have such a poerful machine and run a _desktop_ targeted distribution on it?

    ...and we get at M$ for getting people to run windows on their webservers.

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