Comments on: Big Blue's big-iron x86 backer

IBM's xSeries chief, Susan Whitney, talks with CNET News.com about her big-iron strategy, IBM's coolness toward AMD and more.

[scoobbs]

The same old way...

We see the world our way.
We want the world to move at our pace.
What´s ours is the best. Of anything. At any time.
We invented the PC market.
We also lost it to people who see the world their way and who wanted to do better and cheaper, focusing not only on present profits.
Sounds familiar? Well, for a dinosaur, like me, it´s just the same old IBM.
Maybe 5 years is too much time for an executive in this industry.
PS: we also made the Power PC. We sold it to Apple. Than, of course, we lost the business to Intel...(and the prestige that goes with Apple)...
It´s endless.

[whitiing]

Missing out on Opteron ...

I think IBM is missing out on the AMD Opteron market. I don't think IBM wants to have such a good performing x64 chip to compete across the board with the rest of their own 64 bit servers, Intel isn't there yet with performance and they are hot chips. For a mostly IBM shop I went to Sun for an Opteron SQL 2005 server.

[freq]

what a waste....

I got to use a quad p-pro system last year.. it was part of a junk pile acquired by a friend... I think the machines were from Boeing... anyhow... the quad-ppro could hardly run srvr2k3....... and the monsters were all rack-mount and wighed a tone... Compaqs...if the machines were desktop "weight" I could probably put them to use with some router distro.... i am a jr. dianasour (10yrs 29yrold)... but I have been around plenty of rackmount stuff and I think its a total waste... cause mostly, the bastards who can afford the stuff have way too much money and get con'd into thinking thats what is necessary..... by some sales person.... yet, the sys-admin is like drooling... I have seen it way to often...

rackmount stuff needs a new formfacter.... or just lease the stuff.... on actual usage.....