Windows, Linux propel Q1 server sales, Unix boxes, mainframes stalled http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/27/idc_q1_2010_server_nums/
from above: ... all had products in transition during the first quarter, which hurt sales, and IBM's mainframes are expected to be upgraded in the second half of this year, which damped sales of this legacy box. ... snip ... related thread from early this year ... including reference to IBM announcing new nehalem servers (being caught between rock & hard place): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#25 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#27 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#28 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#32 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#35 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#77 IBM responds to Oracle's Exadata with new systems aka ... IBM goes elephant with Nehalem-EX iron; Massive memory for racks and blades http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/ibm_xeon_7500_servers/ from above: With so much of its money and profits coming from big Power and mainframe servers, you can bet that IBM is not exactly enthusiastic about the advent of the eight-core "Nehalem-EX" Xeon 7500 processors from Intel and their ability to link up to eight sockets together in a single system image. But IBM can't let other server makers own this space either, so it had to make some tough choices. ... snip ... -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
