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To: Paul Engel who wrote (159371)	2/20/2002 1:22:49 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, from that article: "Under the joint development agreement, products developed by IBM and VMware will provide IBM eServer xSeries systems with dynamic logical partitioning capability -- a virtual machine technology first introduced on IBM mainframes in the 1970s.** IBM will offer virtualization capabilities on IBM eServer xSeries 360, its first Intel®-based server featuring the IA-32 Intel Xeon™ Processor MP and incorporating IBM's Enterprise X-Architecture™ technology." IBM is beating a pretty loud drum over these Intel based servers with "mainframe" features. I hope they market them as vigorously as they publish articles about them. Little history thing, the bolded item above was actually introduced by Amdahl and IBM copied it. "VMware". Who makes up these names? Sounds too much like the old VM, or Virtual Machine OS. This from the article, IBM is taking it back all right. (3) According to Gartner Dataquest's third quarter worldwide server market database, IBM's share of worldwide server revenue increased seven points year over year to 30.3 percent in the third quarter. Tony

To: Paul Engel who wrote (159371)	2/20/2002 1:26:12 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "IBM will offer virtualization capabilities on IBM eServer xSeries 360, its first Intel®-based server featuring the IA-32 Intel Xeon™ Processor MP... The x360 packs 4-way computing power in a 3U rack-optimized design ideal for constrained data center" That's some great density, there, considering that the Foster MP processor is a .18u Pentium 4 based processor with up to 1MB of L3 cache. It will be a big chip, and require a good amount of cooling, yet IBM can squeeze four of them into a 3U case! This of course speaks volumes about the amount of infrastructure support going into Intel based servers. It's also an indication that Gallatin, the .13u successor to Foster MP, will do extremely well at its launch later this year. wbmw