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Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM

Posted by timothy on from the alert-the-darl dept.

ksheff writes "According to this story, IBM is planning on introducing low-end SMP servers and deskside machines based on the PPC970. The machines would be able to run Linux and AIX. A 4-way machine is expected to cost less than $3500! IBM expects a 20x increase in the number of PPC Linux servers by 2006."

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  1. IBM's Business Plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    1. Identify a product which is not being provided, but which there is a demand for.
    2. Sell that product to consumers at a price which is reasonable, but higher than what it costs you to produce each unit.
    3. Profit!
    Hmm, that sounds different from normal somehow. Maybe they're on to something here.
    1. Re:IBM's Business Plan by reaper20 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You forgot:

      2.5 Develop a huge support infrastructure backed by a huge company (Noon ever got fired for buying IBM) and make a crapload more money than step 2.

  2. How they fear them! by eddy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's clear from this just how much IBM fears SCO!

    :-P

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  3. They Can't Do This! by red+floyd · · Score: 2, Funny


    Don't they know that SCO 0\/\/n0R5 both Linux and AIX?
    </HUMOR>

    HUMOR tags added for the humor impaired, to comply with the ADA.

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  4. nice sound to it by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does anybody else think that "quad PPC" sounds like some kind of super-weapon?

  5. You are lying. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I own a Ibook, I know it only has a g3 900mhz cpu, but Linux FLYS on it, while macosx just rotates its little blue beach ball at me.
    You are lying. Mac OS X has a rainbow-coloured beachball, not a blue one.

    So either you don't own an iBook, haven't used OS X and are just lying about blue beachballs, or you do own an iBook and see the beachball so little you don't even know what it looks like.

    Which is it?
  6. $3500! ? That's expensive! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    As we all know,
    $3500! = 3500 x 3499 x 3498 x 3497 .... x 1
    That's reeeally expensive!

  7. Re:Like the G5, without OS X by kilgore_47 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a feeling that the apple boxen will still be better workstations for the money. These machines will be optimized for transactions per second.

    If they can ship a quad-proc G5 for $3500, the apple boxen will definitely not be better for the money. Regardless of any server optimizations, I fail to see how these machines could _not_ make bad ass workstations.

    Does anyone know if the $3500 price includes an SCO/Linux license though?
    Because I hear you need those nowadays, if you want to run the linux.

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  8. Re:They already know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    (b) make it fucking impossible for anyone who values time and quality usage to want to do it.

    From Earth to AC, we are talking about linux users here.

  9. Warning: battletech humor by Burning1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, it sounds Awesome.