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Build Your Own Blade Server

Posted by michael on from the it-slices-it-dices dept.

fw3 writes "Information week is reporting that IBM and Intel are opening up the standards for the eServer BladeCenter. 'The companies will make available the design specifications for IBM's eServer BladeCenter product... hardware vendors can build "BladeCenter compatible" networking switches, blade adapter cards, and appliance and communications blades for enterprise networks.' Not really a new strategy for IBM, ISA of course was open from the start, IBM's technical references for the original PCs contained nearly all of the engineering data needed to build a PC. Looking further back I've been told by a reputable source that RCA was able to fully duplicate the System 360 System/360, mainframe working just a month behind IBM's own schedule by using IBM's published tech reports. (Of course IBM *didn't* share the details of OS/360, leaving RCA with a box but no OS.) See also stories from EETimes, CNN."

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  1. Speaking of Blade... by Bill+the+Bilby · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm suprised there's no Wesley Snipes tie-in with this product. It would seem natural.

    "Blades- the only thing between you, and the end of the world"

  2. Re:Clone Blade Servers? by bluenova · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, except now it's "Nobody ever got fired for buying Dell." Dude.

  3. already got one by ColonBlow · · Score: 2, Funny

    this is my blade server.

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    free online diet tracking.
  4. Re:Great step towards compatibility by TedCheshireAcad · · Score: 2, Funny

    No need for profanities, and your logic seems a little flawd

    That's not the only thing thats flawed.