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Re: IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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Post by mghackerlady » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

dadoum wrote: post #179

mghackerlady wrote: post #87

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ppc64le has other machines. Raptor off the top of my head, but there's also that weird notebook project that seems to be talked about once every few years and probably won't ever happen and some pretty cool stuff in the amiga space (I don't know if that's strictly le but power is supposed to be bi-endian)

The PCB design for a small desktop computer (which is a step of the notebook project) has been finished 2 weeks ago, and they are trying to get funding to actually manufacture a few prototypes rn [0] [0]: https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/2026/03/we-are-ready-for-pr...

I'm not saying there hasn't been progress, rather, it doesn't seem like it's ever going to release

Re: IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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Post by roncesvalles » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC

vbezhenar wrote: post #62

roncesvalles wrote: post #41

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Putting consumer grade (aka "commodity") hardware in a datacenter and running your infra on it is a bit of a meme, in the sense that it's not the only way of doing things. It was probably pioneered/popularized by Google but that's because writing great software was their "hammer", ie they framed every computing problem as a software problem. It was probably easier for them (= Jeff Dean) to take mediocre hardware and…

What I think today people do: 1. They run complicated infrastructure software, written by third-party developers. 2. And they run their own simple programs on top of them. So for example you can rent Kubernetes cluster from AWS and run simple HTTP server. If your server crashes, Kubernetes will restart it, so it's resilient. There will be records in some metrics which will light up some alerts and eventually people w…

Worth noting, of course, that Kubernetes traces its lineage to Google. It is the virtual mainframe that Google built on top of commodity clusters.

Re: IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Apr 05, 2026, 1:43 PM UTC

VorpalWay wrote: post #117

esseph wrote: post #94

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Red Hat OpenShift (IBM) is what a lot of banks have settled on. Red Hat went all in maybe 5+ years ago in capturing those institutions.

Ah, that explains why IBM bought RedHat. Or at least one reason for doing so.

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Re: IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm

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Post by mghackerlady » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

greedo wrote: post #162

mghackerlady wrote: post #135

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Java was exploding and sun machines were the server platform at the time. Yes, the dot com bubble burst and their stock was in freefall but all the things deployed to sun that survived the bubble didn't just disappear or move to X86 overnight

Well you can say the same about COBOL... Just because things hung around didn't mean that Sun/Solaris/Java were long for this world. Linux/x86 was just too cheap compared to SPARC gear. Even if it wasn't as robust as the Sun gear, it just made too much sense especially if you didn't have any legacy baggage.

I never said that was the future, the writing was on the wall to anyone paying attention. All I was saying is that x86 servers weren't nearly as ubiquitos as today