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The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers

The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers

Posted Aug 5, 2004 17:43 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (guest, #6227)
Parent article: The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers

"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.


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The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers

Posted Aug 6, 2004 11:53 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

... and Itanium

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