Re: Power 10?

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I think the "Power10" teaser is merely a vendor licensing promo, along the
lines of "Upgrade now and we'll give you a freebie for Power10."

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:11 AM Kevin Bucknum <Kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> This is the best article on timeline that I've seen.
> https://www.itjungle.com/2020/11/23/ibm-reveals-power10-rollout-plan-begins-power11/
> That seems to confirm what you are saying Rob. Big machines first, then the
> rest of us. We are two years into a overpowered P9 for us, so we are likely
> to ride it until it's unsupported, so I'll never see a P10 I'm sure.
>
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> On Thu, 2021-05-27 at 16:55 +0000, Rob Berendt wrote:
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> One may be hoping to play leapfrog and bypass the Power 9.
>
> Granted, only the largest systems (Enterprise Servers) are likely to get
> the initial Power 10 availability and people like me running "Scale-out
> servers" will likely have to wait.
>
> <https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power>
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> https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/power
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> However if you wait too long leap frog becomes leap rhino.  ;-)
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> "getting ready" usually is a process a vendor should not nag a customer
> with - unless there is a hard date to leave the predecessor,
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> which is not the case for a Power9 system.
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