Red Hat has another fun thing to consider. At least a big part of the market for ARM servers will be about much lower cost than todays servers [1]
And in the low cost market, people won't run RHEL, they'll either run a custom OS or... CentOS. I'm sure OEMs are knocking on Red Hat's door for ARM support... just to ensure that CentOS/ARM will exist...
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1) you can argue power and performance, but Intel matches reasonably well there in microservers when you realize that quite a bit of the system power isn't from the cpu/chipset SOC but from memory and storage. It'll be interesting to see actual product numbers from both sides from real products.
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Re: The sales model
Date: 2013-07-22 10:09 pm (UTC)At least a big part of the market for ARM servers will be about much lower cost than todays servers [1]
And in the low cost market, people won't run RHEL, they'll either run a custom OS or... CentOS.
I'm sure OEMs are knocking on Red Hat's door for ARM support... just to ensure that CentOS/ARM will exist...
-- Arjan van de Ven
1) you can argue power and performance, but Intel matches reasonably well there in microservers when you realize that quite a bit of the system power isn't from the cpu/chipset SOC but from memory and storage. It'll be interesting to see actual product numbers from both sides from real products.