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BDPrime writes:
Sine Nomine Associates, the company working on porting OpenSolaris to the mainframe, is demonstrating the technology at the Gartner Data Center conference this week. David Boyes, the president, is giving the demos at the IBM booth with the support of Sun Microsystems. He said it will be ready for mainframe users "soon," but wouldn't divulge more than that.
It's a five-part video series on YouTube that could take up some time, but the demo, which is mostly in the last video, is pretty cool.
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BDPrime writes:
IBM is now apparently making it harder for mainframe resellers to resell the mainframe. This according to a quarterly earnings call from a mainframe reseller, QSGI, who said IBM's restrictions on a reseller's ability to upgrade and downgrade a machine for a user are diminishing the benefit of buying a refurbished mainframe. From a story in The Register:
IBM has a colossal claim to the mainframe marketplace, and can largely dole out its own terms to customers. When another business starts using IBM's own hardware to compete, IBM has a tendency to roll up its sleeves.
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BDPrime writes:
Techworld, among others, is reporting today that IBM is announcing the Power6 chip today. The chip will first appear in its System p Unix servers running AIX. The chip has clock speeds up to 4.7 GHz, more than twice the Power5, while consuming about the same amount of power. It also doubles the cache to 8MB per chip.
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BDPrime writes:
AMD is cutting prices for its X2 processors, according to an update on its microprocessor pricing list. The cuts refer to AMD's Athlon 64 FX and Athlon 64 X2 chips.
Some of the price cuts are almost in half.