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Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-rounds dept.

vaporland writes "This story from Infoworld.com talks about IBM's new low priced POWER5 based servers which will ship with Red Hat or Suse Linux, but not IBM's AIX. My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?"

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  1. Wouldnt it be best to ask IBM that question by UnseenEnigma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    instead of a bunch of people with no idea what the answer might be and just attack IBMs marketing practises

  2. Re:Boot OSX Server? by cyngus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Something tells me that booting up OS X Server on an XServe is going to be cheaper than these babies.

  3. Re:Boot OSX Server? by FuzzieNorn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Um, interesting, because those ROMs aren't present in .. any of my machines running OS X. Welcome to newworld. The only OSX-running machines which isn't newworld are the beige G3s, and they're not even supported any more.

    Even OS 9 has supported having the ROM present in a file rather than physically present for ages.

  4. Re:Virtual Performance Hit by flaming-opus · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What are the servers you replace. In our lab we have a server dedicated to being a proxy cache to our code-versioning software. We have a server dedicated to being an ssh tunnel. We have a server dedicated to a dns/nis/nfs server which is terribly under-utilized.

    No 4 power-5 processors aren't going to replace a dozen maxed-out dual-xeons. But more likely they will replace 2 maxed-out dual-xeons, and half a dozen servers that are largely underused. One clever thing they let you do is adjust the allocation of resources. Clever.

  5. Irrelevant question by AchilleTalon · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I think asking if it will boot OS/X is just like asking: Yes, but will it boot Windows XP?

    It is just irrelevant to the marketing initiative and the goal of IBM. Why the hell should IBM cares about the PowerPC on the desktop when Apple is already providing a solution? Go and buy Apple!

    IBM is just unrolling the red carpet for Linux to enter enterprise data-centers in some of the most skeptical and demanding industries.

    The most interesting feature is the virtualization engine on the four processors model. Given what it is costing to some banking customers per server on the floor, while some are idle most of the time and only justified because they need a "separated box for security reasons", this single feature will sell the box by tons. And I know a customer who would benefit right away from this to replace about 50 servers by two or three of these. And two-third of these servers are Sun boxes. IBM is likely to get the integration project using their virtualization engine, they will lost some money on the maintenance since the remaining third is IBM boxes, but they will get fresh new cash for the new boxes, the project and kick-out Sun. Anything else they could wish to have?

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    Achille Talon
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