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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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    Belief is the currency of delusion.
  3. nice sound to it by bersl2 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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?