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UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 16:12 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe by jengelh
Parent article: UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

IBM, as you probably know, is about a decade or two ahead of everybody else in terms of virtualization. In the past they've offered POWER boxes that had a add-on Xeon processor so that you can run Windows along side AIX and Linux on the same machine.

This seems like a extension of that.


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UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 16:28 UTC (Fri) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Now add “affordable to the end customer” to the equation ;-)

UKUUG: Arnd Bergmann on interconnecting with PCIe

Posted Nov 21, 2008 22:27 UTC (Fri) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

True for now. However, it is possible that Windows licenses will come down in price at some future time. ;-)

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