IBM and Intel Market New Servers

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These blade servers are nice - but they are right - only the fat cats were buying them because they are still too darn expensive!

After the DOT com crash, you could rent collocation space for chump change. There was no reason to worry about spending 2 to 5 times more for a blade server when you could stack your pizza box servers to the roof!



Warsai wrote: NEW YORK (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news) said it is making the design of its "blade" computer servers widely available, in a move designed to gain wider acceptability in data centers and the telecommunications industry.

IBM said that opening the design of its blade servers -- which are made up of many small safe-deposit box sized components that can be easily removed or added -- will allow other companies more easily to make gears that work with them.

IBM's blade servers, called Bladecenter, are designed in partnership with Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news). IBM said it and Intel will not charge any royalty fees and no patent licensing will be required.

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