OEMs and chip makers are aggressively pushing into the high-end Unix space, a profitable but shrinking area of the server market. Analysts say IBM with its new Power7 systems has the inside track to expand its market share, though Hewlett-Packard and Intel are coming out with systems based on new Itanium chips. Oracle, with Sun’s hardware business in hand, also is looking to make a play in a market affected by x86 chips from Intel and AMD.
– Server OEMs and chip makers are turning a spotlight on the high end of the
systems market, ramping up the rhetoric for their competition in the highly
profitable but shrinking Unix space.
IBM made its move Dec. 8,
with the rollout of its first powerful Power7
systems, which promise chip- and sy…