IBM is pressing what it sees as an advantage over HP and Sun by cutting prices by as much as 70 percent on memory in its Power systems. The goal is to further tempt customers of Suns SPARC systems and HPs Itanium platform to migrate to IBMs Power architecture. However, one analyst also said that the Power platform also is competing with less-expensive x86 systems, which are moving deeper into scale-up environments.
– IBM officials are sharply cutting memory prices on their Power
systems in hopes of enticing more Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems
customers to migrate their RISC platform.
IBM will reduce memory prices 28 to 70 percent, believing that such
a move will lure more customers onto the Power archi…