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IBM To Update Unix Servers

Posted by Hemos on from the power-the-machine dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IBM is about to announce a major update its pSeries Unix servers, according to a story on IT Week's site. The story quotes an IBM source, who said the new servers will use IBM's Power5+ chip."

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  1. Re:IBM Out in Front Further? by tweek · · Score: 2, Informative

    Having worked with Power5 systems since they came out, I can attest to the system. The last part that IBM has missing, which I was informed they were working on, is hot-swap cpu. I know Sun has had this for a while.

    IBM has positioned themselves very well by making sure that linux runs on both the pSeries hardware AND the zSeries in addition to the xSeries (Intel line). There is an offical support policy for linux on Power.

    I know Sun just added that to the Sparc line but I'm not sure where HP stands. Is Linux a supported config on the Superdome line?

    The only other company really left is SGI and we all know how that's going.

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  2. Re:IBM Page Already Updated? by twiddlingbits · · Score: 2, Informative

    Give Sun a call. Last time I looked they had like 5 systems using Opeterons, single core, dual core and single/dual CPU. Very good prices as well.