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Too late for the game. Power should do this way earlier. The Linux community was booming around PowerPC a few years back and now all the brains left to work on

by ausjke 11y ago

Too late for the game. Power should do this way earlier. The Linux community was booming around PowerPC a few years back and now all the brains left to work on either ARM or x86. Without that community support(Power does not really run Windows), the chip is just a piece of cold hardware even though it can shine spotty in the spec. One of Power's biggest user is probably a licensee in China, who replaced its crypto logic and use it for their own needs, but that's far from enough to compete against Xeon.

teepo 11y ago
It's all about Linux. IBM's running Power8 with RedHat in SoftLayer data centers. Hadoop and jboss are some of the target workloads.
- bluedino 11y ago
  The ERP product we use has gone from an iSeries native product to a Linux version, it's so much faster it's not funny.
- ctstover 11y ago
  I remember the announcements back in May, but I still don't see an offering on their site. Can one really get a Linux instance on Power by the hour / month in SL? Even better in my case would be just a VPS, as a build node does need a monster server. At the same time, if they are "using it behind the scenes", yet not offering it to customers, that would be very bad for brand image. Isn't the crux of the selling points server consolidation? Which of course is the same exact thing "cloud provider". I still haven't tried it, but siteox.com has it though.
  - pm90 11y ago
    IBM is a enterprise behemoth. If you look at their sources of revenues, they focus a lot more on B2B with a few selected spinoffs designed to generate some public interest. Its not surprising they don't publicize a lot of things they do.
Shivetya 11y ago
Based on my work Power processors are simply the backbone of AIX and iSeries machines and perform very well in those applications. The interesting part is that either platform can move off the Power processor to another, the least impacted from a business perspective would be iSeries as the layer above the machine level is independent and would simply rebuild programs without customer intervention beyond upgrading the OS

by ausjke 11y ago

teepo 11y ago

It's all about Linux. IBM's running Power8 with RedHat in SoftLayer data centers. Hadoop and jboss are some of the target workloads.

bluedino 11y ago
The ERP product we use has gone from an iSeries native product to a Linux version, it's so much faster it's not funny.
ctstover 11y ago
I remember the announcements back in May, but I still don't see an offering on their site. Can one really get a Linux instance on Power by the hour / month in SL? Even better in my case would be just a VPS, as a build node does need a monster server. At the same time, if they are "using it behind the scenes", yet not offering it to customers, that would be very bad for brand image. Isn't the crux of the selling points server consolidation? Which of course is the same exact thing "cloud provider". I still haven't tried it, but siteox.com has it though.
- pm90 11y ago
  IBM is a enterprise behemoth. If you look at their sources of revenues, they focus a lot more on B2B with a few selected spinoffs designed to generate some public interest. Its not surprising they don't publicize a lot of things they do.

Shivetya 11y ago

Based on my work Power processors are simply the backbone of AIX and iSeries machines and perform very well in those applications. The interesting part is that either platform can move off the Power processor to another, the least impacted from a business perspective would be iSeries as the layer above the machine level is independent and would simply rebuild programs without customer intervention beyond upgrading the OS