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eliben
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How IBM Stacks Up Power8 Against Xeon Servers
The almost $3K price tag on a "Linux OS" is disturbing
nabla9
on Oct 14, 2015
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Why you find it disturbing that someone wants to pay for OS support?
eliben
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That's a lot for supporting a free OS on a
single server
fnordfnordfnord
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It comes with an engineer's phone number.
krylon
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I think they assumed these servers would run RHEL, which is not cheap, especially on non-x86(_64) architectures.
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