this topic and the power8 have come up before.. i think it boils down to what companies have already invested in. if you have a strong AIX team already supporti

this topic and the power8 have come up before.. i think it boils down to what companies have already invested in. if you have a strong AIX team already supporting power/ibm infrastructure, this is great. you have one of the fastest system platforms out there. however, if your application/workload can be distributed over multiple machines, Intel is going to eat your lunch on cost, as you can buy several of these new Xeon systems and crush it. not all of us have the luxury of control over the software we use (many enterprise shops are held hostage by vendor software which hasn't scaled out, and continues to depend on scaling up, because distributed is hard)