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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by gigatexal on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:26PM (#15152118)
Power is big iron reliable. if you can pay for it it likely pays off. Probably easier to manage a handful of million dollar Power/AIX setups than 1000s of servers.
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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by filereaper on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:12PM (#15152413)
I don't follow, this is the same POWER 'big iron' just running Linux instead of AIX.
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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by pjmlp on Saturday September 02, 2017 @07:47AM (#15155491)
To complement siblings answer, there are several types of failures where PC hardware will just crash and burn, while POWER will just work as usual.
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Re:The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons by gigatexal on Friday September 01, 2017 @07:04PM (#15152994)
The hardware is where the magic is not the software.
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