IBM to Acquire SoftLayer • Hacker News Board

Re: IBM to Acquire SoftLayer

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Post by rodgerd » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:06 AM UTC

jacques_chester wrote: post #109

wmf wrote: post #103

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No, I mean the relative performance and price/performance between z and Power or z and x86 is not public and never will be, so any performance comparisons between mainframes and normal servers have to be treated as rumor or speculation. This is not relevant if you're actually buying a mainframe because IBM will probably let you try before you buy, but it makes armchair architecture (HN's favorite sport) difficult.

In fairness to IBM, that's how enterprise sales usually works. Try finding independent production data on Oracle DB, for example.

Oracle's contracts expressly forbid talking about it unless Oracle have signed off on it.

Which is a pity, because I look after a bunch of Oracle on zLinux and would like to share...

Re: IBM to Acquire SoftLayer

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Post by czbond » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 1:12 PM UTC

josh2600 wrote: post #6

IBM is buying SoftLayer to try to go head up with AWS. It's not going to work. Personally I won't buy an IBM product because I know it's just like Oracle: software entrapment. Nothing wrong with that business model it's just not one I want to be involved with. In other news, great job by SoftLayer to exit as pricing pressure from AWS and GoogleAppEngine was going to steadily erode their margins over time. I feel the…

Great play by IBM - do you have any experience in Enterprise, bc this statement isn't true? Unfortunately, I do (too much Big 4 consulting in my distant past).

This is a great acquisition for IBM strategically. Many big enterprises still use IBM/Oracle products because of existing sales relationships and the fact CTO"s want to point the finger when resrouces go down. IBM will sell a ton of this. Also, with the numerous outages on AWS (unacceptable to Fortune 500) - the "selling point" well be "we're not amazon - and we can scale". IMHO

Re: IBM to Acquire SoftLayer

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Post by timjahn » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

bradleyjoyce wrote: post #104

timjahn wrote: post #27

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I love seeing more and more online blogs/publications/hubs like Launch DFW popping up for startup activity in cities across the US. A great way to connect people locally and share the happenings with those all over.

Perhaps I should have put a disclaimer in my original comment that I'm the founder of Launch DFW (though now am only slightly involved)... the long term vision is to find people passionate about their own communities and create a network of these types of blogs.

More power to ya! I hope to see the network of these types of blogs continue to grow.