Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Plug: IBM launches a 60-day “test drive” program for POWER servers (with Linux)
Get a System p (510/520) running Linux (there is an option for AIX… but I’m biased) for 60 days to try it out at no cost. If you don’t like the server, send it back with no obligation to buy. These servers have the quad-core POWER 5+ processors in them with simultaneous multithreading. You can also leverage Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) which won last year’s LinuxWorld award for Best Virtualization Solution (yes, it beat out Xen, Virtuozzo and VMWare). Not to mention you can also combine these servers with the System p AVE (pAVE) open beta to run your Linux/x86 applications unmodified on Linux/POWER
You can get more information and sign up for the test drive here. What do you have to lose?
Unfortunately IBM employees are not eligible to participate so I’m excluded…
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May 3rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Enterprise Linux Log » Take IBM’s System p for a Linux test drive said:
[...] Mike Dolan, an IBM guy and someone we like to link to here on the ‘Log, has a cool blog post up today about a new IBM program that allows users to test drive System p hardware running Linux or AIX much in the same way Sun Microsystems has done with its “try and buy” program. [...]