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Story: IBM goes after Sun with new low-end systems

Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 5 October 2005, 1:13 AM)

This is all great news for IBM and for their customers who pay the highest support ticket in the industry, because of how proprietary their platforms are. Oh! Let not forget about price! I didn't see any mention of it in any of the articles I've read in the past few days. As far as getting the most bang for your buck; Sun is still the best ticket in town especially now with their new offerings. I know you say what about Dell? Well Dell is a good somewhat stable platform; especially if running Linux as opposed to Windows. However, most of your high availability platforms are loaded on HP or Sun platform servers. You can talk it up all you want, but the people spending the money and responsible for the maintenance know what is really going on.