I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on PC blades. IBM (HP and Clearcube make PC blades also ) (http://news.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=/10-5-0&fp=435e179035481b19&ei=HP5eQ6nXL8Oa6wH259HkCA&url=http%3A//www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml%3FarticleID%3D172303304&cid=1101960915 ) has announced a new solutions offering with their Bladecenter product. IBM has partnered with VMware to offer a virtualized desktiop environment. According to IBM they can host from 10-15 clients on each blade. IBM"s solution is a VMware Citrix client for those in the Windows group. 20 clients is what I heard on linux terminal services.
So the question then becomes is the blade the right platform ....??? After all 10-20 not all that much. Would not a large SMP machine be much more suitable.....?? Now of course scalability is entirely different for Linux and Window, but does raise some interesting roi questions.... -- ___________________________________________________ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
