Red Hat have come together to provide Enterprise Linux 6 on IBM's Power Systems sold by Big Blue and with first- and second-level support provided by Big Blue.
What is new in announcement letter 211-114 is that IBM and Red Hat have cooked up a per-server license price for Power Systems machines running RHEL 6, which actually debuted last November . With RHEL 6 out but apparently not certified on the new Power iron, IBM started giving away a freebie RHEL license on Power Systems Express configurations two weeks later.
IBM Offers Red Hat Linux on a Per-Server Basis on Power - IT Jungle
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That's nothing new, of course. IBM has been a big OEM partner of Red Hat's for years, and my back-of-the-envelope math is that RHEL drives somewhere on the order of $1.4 billion of IBM server hardware sales a year these days across X64, Power, and mainframe platforms.What is new in announcement letter 211-114 is that IBM and Red Hat have cooked up a per-server license price for Power Systems machines running RHEL 6, which actually debuted last November . With RHEL 6 out but apparently not certified on the new Power iron, IBM started giving away a freebie RHEL license on Power Systems Express configurations two weeks later.
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