Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 8:06 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) by eduperez
Parent article: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)

X86 instead of Broadcom processors will make them consume less power.

Allowing people with "little or no knowledge or routers" to write code for them is in order to make them more secure.

The article makes perfect sense :-)

(Please read it before considering to reply to this)

Posted Oct 9, 2009 8:40 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

What? There's a CPU out there that draws more power than an (Intel/AMD) x86?

Amazing.

Posted Oct 9, 2009 11:24 UTC (Fri) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]

That's why this is so *newsworthy*!!!

Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:16 UTC (Sat) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link]

Presumably that would be the Broadcom ia64.