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Economic down turn and Linux

Posted by Mitch Koyama on May 27, 2009 2:28:38 PM

Join us at a video webcast where Novell, HP, and Intel, hosted by IDC, bring forward the power of Linux in today’s datacenter.  While we have seen customer’s embrace system refresh as a financial efficiency tool, IDC survey reveals that Linux is a key solution for survival in this economic climate, from front end to mission-critical back end.  The timing to consider Linux on Intel server platforms is right. 

Three speakers from industry leading companies will introduce what innovation in a truly open industry standard environment delivers to datacenter operations by saving money while meeting daunting performance and productivity requirements. 

Intel speaker:  Dylan Larson, Director, SPG Marketing

HP speaker:  Stephen Bacon, Linux Marketing, BCS

Novell speaker:  Justin Steinman, VP Marketing

IDC host:  Al Gillen, Program VP, System Software

The webcast will be held on June 9th, 11am to noon, EDT. 



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May 27, 2009 6:24 PM Ken Lloyd Ken Lloyd    says:

This sounds like a timely event.  Maintaining expensive proprietary Unix systems on expensive platforms just doesn't sound as compelling in this economic environment.  I talk to customers every day who are agressively deciding how they can move to Linux platforms and take advantage of Xeon performance for consolidation.

 

New Xeon 5500 systems can replace expensive "mini" class hardware without breaking a sweat.  This coupled with virtualization solutions provides economics that can only be ignored by people who don't care about money.

Jun 17, 2009 8:11 PM Guest новостройки Чехии  says:

I agree with Ken Lloyd about economic entity of using expensive Unix-based platforms.