A Dumb Prediction: IBM will Buy HP’s Unix Customers

“Just over a year ago Scott McNealy offered to have Sun extend
support for HP-UX and begin a process to migrate HP’s remaining
Unix customers to Solaris. Most of the press laughed, and HP’s
people, presumably too busy bugging journalists to watch what was
going on in the Unix part of their business, essentially did
nothing.

“Now Sun’s T2 is out and it’s pretty much the world beater they
promised–30% faster on SPEC throughput then IBM’s 4.7Ghz Dual core
Power6 and, more significantly, one third the cost and somewhere
between two and three times the throughput of the Itanium…”

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