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Big Iron Will Always Drive Big Spending

September 21, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Starting way back in the late 1980s, when Sun Microsystems was on the rise in the datacenter and Hewlett Packard was its main rival in Unix-based systems, market forces compelled IBM to finally and forcefully field its own open systems machines to combat Sun, HP, and others behind the Unix movement. …

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September 8, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

While we are big fans of distributed computing systems here at The Next Platform, we never forget our heritage in big iron. …

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