2016-10-19 12:59 GMT+08:00 Ralph Siegler <[email protected]>: .. > too expensive to have for development, too expensive to run, to > expensive for a userbase while businesses waited for a mature version, no > compelling use case in the open source world that couldn't be done with > Xeon drawing half to a third the power. >
Ralph, At 2850 to 5300 USD for rack chassi+mobo+CPU, I think Power8 servers do make sense - it seems like a great way to diversify from AMD64, while still in a robust server architecture. Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their new Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too. So then there's two alternative architectures to AMD64, great! (I didn't see any convincing ARM64 servers on the market yet.)
