Vesku
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This isn't competing with generic x86 servers. Big data companies are looking to take some of the wind out of Intel's pricing sails by running a mixed ISA environment. They are targeting relatively narrow datacenter uses atm: memcached and similar RAM hosted applications, storage, and web services.
Same basic reason "OpenPower", diversification of IBM Power platform, came about.
Same basic reason "OpenPower", diversification of IBM Power platform, came about.