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...u are > looking for, i.e. a Power-based server to run Linux (or AIX or IBM i if > you prefer) -- well, that's how IBM would see it I think. They already > support Linux on Power Systems. But I don't think they are going to > undercut themselves, sadly. I agree the Power System L922 looks promising, but I'm afraid the "Please contact us for pricing" still means the prices are eye watering. The problem is that there is almost no competition in the POWER server market which results in higher prices. IBM has the chance to change this now. Regards, Simon

...2018 17:14, Simon Matter wrote: > Are you sure, has this changed? In the past time when I had to do with > iSeries, they even had their own rack size, no chance to put them into a > standard server rack. Ah, I must admit that I didn't look at rack sizes. > I agree the Power System L922 looks promising, but I'm afraid the "Please > contact us for pricing" still means the prices are eye watering. The > problem is that there is almost no competition in the POWER server market > which results in higher prices. Yup. When I looked at IBM Power machines before (m...

> On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote: >>> On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote: >>>> To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM >>>> POWER >>>> and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the >>>> hardware >>>> market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS