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Xserve Competes With High-End Unix Servers

Posted by pudge on from the bring-it-on dept.

wayneh writes "There is a great article at ITworld.com about how Apple's Xserve is finding its way to high-end server vendors. The vendors who traditionally sold Sun and IBM servers are now looking into and stocking the Xserve as their clients become curious about the system. It'll be interesting to see how well the Xserve does among its more traditional competitors."

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  1. RAID, too by big_oaf · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you remember way back in May when Apple introduced the Xserve, they also previewed a 2GB RAID solution. According to this relatively old c|net article:

    Apple also previewed a future storage device, the Xserve RAID, a 5.25-inch thick cabinet that can contain 14 hard drives for a total capacity of 1.68 terabytes. The system has two 2-gigabit-per-second Fibre Channel connections, a high-speed connection technology for communicating with servers.

    There have been some rumblings around the Mac rumor community that this will soon debut. Can I get a "booyah"?

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  2. WRONG. Do some research before posting junk. by BoomerSooner · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm sure someone else has already said this but here it goes anyway:

    Apple, Motorola and IBM all created the 160 128Bit instructions cooperatively. Altivec is the brand name that Motorola uses, it has nothing to do with the instruction set. IBM can use the instructions they just cannot name it Altivec unless Motorola says okay and allows them to license the name or just use it for free (unlikely).

    So IBM is integrating the "Altivec" instructions it will be branded a different name more than likely.