"IBM ANSWERED THE call of cash-strapped telecommunication customers Tuesday with a new Linux system that meets the stringent demands of carriers and service providers.
"The x343 will be available worldwide at the end of April as a two-processor server running Linux that meets level 3 of the NEBS (network equipment building system) standards. Telecommunication companies and service providers use NEBS standards as a way of measuring how well a server can withstand harsh conditions such as an earthquake or drastic change in temperature. A two-way x343 with 1.26GHz Pentium III processors, 2GB of memory and a 36GB hard drive starts at $9,999, said Jeff Benck, director of xSeries marketing at IBM." http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/03/26/020326hnibm.xml Mark Post
