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IBM’s Power systems biz is growing again

IBM Power Systems users – a great article on the renaissance of IBM Power Systems led by customers running Linux on IBM Power. The RISC chip processing is alive and well. Mark Kissinger, Shore Data


A few years ago, you wouldn’t have bet much on IBM’s Power systems having a bright future. The major Unix platforms have all been on the decline for more than a decade, giving way to Linux servers powered by increasingly capable x86 processors from Intel.

The jury is still out on Power, but there are signs that a bold push by IBM to revive the technology has started to pay off. Oracle’s Sparc platform is also proving surprisingly resilient, raising a question about whether Hewlett-Packard should have killed its own proprietary Unix chip, PA-RISC, all those years ago.

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