19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
4:47 p.m.
On Tuesday 19 January 2010, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
And if you screw something up, you get him to faceplant!
*SPLAT!* :)
I think the entry level for these machines is about $2.5-3K.
What sort of machines? Are these POWER6?
Just under $4k is the cheapest new POWER6 machine I've seen:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/js12/browse.html
POWER5 can be had for less, but it annoys me that IBM hasn't stopped
selling POWER5 yet. The fact that they keep selling them new isn't
helping the used system price deflate enough so that I could justify
getting a used one. Even a 1-way 1.5GHz p520 on eBay still goes for
like $1500.
Pat
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On server-grade OSes, at some point you cover all the
basics.
There's
no dancing babies to be had in smit.
But there's a little running guy! Myself, I've decided I'll be getting a brand
new IBM server next
year
for my home network. Natch, it'll be running AIX, not Linux, so I
can
use all the RS/6000 and Apple Network Server software and such
I've accumulated over the years.
What kind of machine are you getting? Any idea?