:Computerworld Australia: IBM Wants to Shrink the Linux Server Installed Base
Computerworld Australia: IBM Wants to Shrink the Linux Server Installed Base Feb 20, 2007, 14 :30 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (4796 reads) (Other stories by Phil Hochmuth)
"IBM says the 1.6 million stand-alone Linux servers running in enterprise data centers is too many. It's not Linux IBM has a thing against; it's the physical server hardware running the operating system.
"To slim down Linux hardware deployments, IBM recently introduced a powerful Linux server--System p5 560Q. The device is the company's latest server virtualization workhorse, which IBM says can squeeze 320 stand-alone x86 Linux servers into a rack of p5 560Qs..."