By Mark Fontecchio
IBM rolled out four servers based on its new multicore Power7 processor at an event in New York on Monday, claiming superiority in the shrinking — but still substantial — Unix market.
The news comes a week after Oracle Corp. outlined plans to push the Sun Microsystems Sparc-Solaris combo as the foundation for high-end, data center appliances.
Despite confusion about Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Solaris remains the top Unix OS in server shipments. It runs on both x86 and Sparc servers, while IBM AIX and HP-UX run on only Power and Itanium/PA-RISC chips, respectively. In terms of revenue, however, AIX, however, leads the Unix market
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