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The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers
Intel and HP have issued a
press release about the Weather Channel's switch to Linux servers.
"The Weather Channel replaced 138 RISC-based processors with 42 Itanium 2 processors. The Weather Channel deployed 17 two-way HP Integrity rx2600 servers and two, four-way HP Integrity rx5670 servers running RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.0 and Oracle(1) 9i Real Application Clusters. The servers run applications which power corporate databases, transportation logistics, budgeting software, supply chain management, Web systems, asset management, and a file and print system.
According to The Weather Channel, the Linux operating system provides increased flexibility and a better price performance ratio when compared to the RISC platform."
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The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers Posted Aug 5, 2004 17:43 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link] "According to The Weather Channel, the Linux operating system provides increased flexibility and a better price performance ratio when compared to the RISC platform."
Yay terminology confusion! I'm assuming they meant Linux on Itanium was better than some other proprietary OS on a proprietary RISC platform. Linux, of course, runs on several RISC platforms, including PowerPC.
The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers Posted Aug 6, 2004 11:53 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] ... and Itanium
And here's the equipment in question... Posted Aug 5, 2004 18:17 UTC (Thu) by JohnBell (guest, #12625) [Link] Entry level Integrity systems... very nice.
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/entry_lev[...]
RISC platform Posted Aug 7, 2004 8:02 UTC (Sat) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] With the line about "compared to the RISC platform", I have to assumethat they're switching from HP's old PA-RISC systems (running HP-UX) to HP's new Itanium-based systems running Linux.
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