IBM Promoting POWER Systems

A reader writes:"IBM has launched a Open Power Project to increase awareness around its Open Power product line for Linux.. The site includes technical information, forums and provides the ability to tinker w/ Open Power platforms at the University of Augsburg and Peking University. Both Universities are hosting POWER5-based servers and are providing free SSH account access to the Open Source development community. There are rumors of additional Universities to come. They are also hosting special showings of the War of the Worlds in San Francisco and NYC. Looks like there are a couple of hundred pairs of free tickets to each showing on a first come first served basis to those that register."

Comments

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[goober1473]

Are IBM withdrawing the OpenPower Line?

Re:REALLY?!?

[MattWhitworth]

Conspiracy! They must have some hidden agenda to be promoting this product! IBM is taking over!

PowerPC

[Refrag]

It's too bad they aren't promoting PowerPC.

Re:IBM = movie moguls?

[tomstdenis]

synergy.

They're leveraging a cross-brand multi-market upscale potential to maximize their mindspace and returning revenue streams.

Tom

If IBM wants to promote Power

[Trigun]

Maybe they should give away a few hundred or so low-end servers. I wouldn't mind getting one. I'll even pay for the shipping.

Re:Well Duh.

[JamesTRexx]

Except, you're talking about the USA.

*ducks*

What does "Open" mean?

[argent]

Historically, putting "Open" in a product name or service has been a useful warning sign, similar to "Honest" on a used card dealer's lot.

For example, "OpenVMS", "MVS Open Edition", "Open Desktop" or "Open Server", ...

Unfortunately this is no longer a reliable guide, as some open systems and open source organizations have muddied the waters by using it in the previous (and, for a time, obsolete) sense.

Re:IBM = movie moguls?

[tomstdenis]

No, but I've been dragged into too many "let's try to make money off tom's public domain code" to know buzzspeak. I usually have self-defense mechanisms [re: shut ears off] when they start in on "getting the market traction going"...

I've been lucky so far and nobody has caught on that I spent over half my time in meetings mentally undressing the cutest female in the office [which varies with location] or just playing SMB1 in my head... which I can do fairly well at this point...

Tom