Judging people for not sharing your non-mainstream preferences is not a great way to earn points. POWER9 is very interesting, especially with it's open licensi

Judging people for not sharing your non-mainstream preferences is not a great way to earn points. POWER9 is very interesting, especially with it's open licensing. It's even in the relative price and performance category as Intel Xeons, and I'm hopeful that POWER10 on Samsung 7nm will also be competitive. But POWER9 doesn't have the software compatibility that x86 does, nor is it remotely close in price or performance to AMD. At best, POWER9 might receive a special mention as a niche product (along with the Arm Ampere workstation[0]). Also, RaptorCS has had problems with their support process. I know they've been working on it, but that doesn't mean they've worked through all of the teething issues. [0]https://www.anandtech.com/show/15737/arm-development-for-the-office-unboxing-an-ampere-emag-workstation https://www.anandtech.com/show/15737/arm-development-for-the...