Power5 on the cheap
Infoworld has a cautionary article on IBM's new PowerOpen servers, which I meant to jot the other day... specifically the Open Power 710:
The Model 710, which contains a 1.65GHz Power5 chip, 1GB of memory, and a 73GB drive will be available starting Feb. 18 and carry a starting price of $3,449.
Before you start comparing this to XServe's, remember that the Power5, and the hardware surrounding it, is not a G5 where it counts, and the big deal about this is that they're including some of their high-end micro-partitioning and virtualization technology in it.
Check out the specs for yourself, this is a pretty intense price point for this caliber of kit. Keep watching the 'OpenPower' initiative, there's some major stuff lurking there if all goes well, especially once the CELL is birthed upon the world.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 27, 2005, at 06:56 AM
Power5 is slick - a very powerful platform. AIX is weird, but relatively easy to admin (just get to know this guy named Smitty), and Linux, whatever the flava, is damn near ubiquitous.