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Linux on POWER too expensive

Unless POWER hardware gets drastically cheap I don't see this
scenario of yours working. I don't like Intel architecture but
the future is Linux on cheap Intel and that is why Sun is changing
their hardware line up. POWER technology is in all game consoles
and is used more widely than SPARC. Until Sun/IBM make these chips
a lot cheaper than they currently are than all UNIX'es are under
threat.

Linux is not the best in all areas but it is good enough.
Intel is not a great architecture but it is good enough.
To run your Oracle DB on that combo is a lot less expensive
and that is what really matters.

In a world where technologies survived based on merit IA64 would
have died and Alpha lived but as long as it's cheap and good enough than that is all that matters.

Posted by: junknstuff@...   Posted on: 10/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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