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HP and Microsoft trumpet blade marriage

Anonymous Coward

"BladeCenter" comment 

Isn't "BladeCenter" an IBM term? Are the bundles with HP c-Class blades?

Anonymous Coward

What am I missing here? 

Stop

Why would anyone in their right mind run a Microsoft application in Itanic?

The TCO just isn't there in comparison to X64. Furthermore, I'm limiting my vendor choice, both by adoping HP blades and by choosing Itanium.

Jan

It is 

Yup, BladeCenter is IBM-speak. If fact I you will get enthusiastically corrected to BladeSystem when you call a c-Class a BladeCenter.

Apart from that the c-Class is a nice piece of kit and will also happily run XEN.

...still like my p590s better, though.