Source: ENET Silicon Valley Dynamic According to CNET News Website A cheap series of services known as OpenPower. According to sources that are familiar with this program, the OpenPower server uses the Power5 processor, but only the Linux operating system can be run without running the AIX or I5 / OS operating system. IBM intends to set a competitive price to the OpenPower server, which will make the OpenPower server not only from the opponent from the Ultrasparc processor's Sun's low-end UNIX server, and will also become a large number of Intel. Some companies of Xeon and AMD's Opteron are some of the company's X86 architecture server competitors. The OpenPower server has changed compared to the past Power server. According to the analyst of Insight64, Brookwood, there is no doubt that IBM is still expected to be an industry standard, replacing x86, Anteng and Opteron chip. It is also aware of the Tool that Linux operating system is more easily turned to the Power platform for customers. However, according to market research company IDC, IBM's popularity of the X86 chip needs to take a long way. The delivery of X86 architecture servers last year is 4.7 million, far exceeds the shipments of 118,000 sets of Power Server. IBM has always been actively promoting its POWER processor. In January, he said that it would order the price of the POWER server to the same level as the Intel architecture server. In May, it has limited the design of the Power architecture and enables programmers to access remote servers installed on the University of Poland for free, developed Linux operating system software running on the POWER platform. IBM has been the promotion of Linux operating system since 2000. However, according to the analyst of Illuminata, Haf, however, the Linux-Power combination has still played a small role, and there is almost no great attraction to IBM's existing customers. It is very important to enable Linux-Power portfolio to enter the mainstream market for IBM. He said that IBM must make Linux communities are interested in Power platforms. IBM's ambitions have suggested that Linux-Power combination is to compete with Linux-x86, requiring it to get more developers and partners. But the potential cost of Linux-Power combination may become a stumbling block in the mainstream market. IBM has refused to comment on the above comments. Sun is very admiring the performance of the POWER chip, but it believes that IBM has a lot of difficulties in obtaining the mainstream Linux users, and users of the Linux operating system are used to selecting suppliers from many manufacturers. According to IDC's analyst Pozman, it is much easier to transplant application software from a version of Linux to another. Linux is much easier than transplanting from other operating systems. James James, RedMonk, also said that IBM's popularity of the OpenPower server will play a promotion of the POWER chip. It needs to put the POWER chip outside its traditional market. This is a great measure to launch the OpenPower server for IBM.
