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IBM chase HP (and Sun) with tiny mem prices

AIX pipeline lubrication In an effort to boost the amount of money that IBM is getting from competitive takeouts of Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, Big Blue has taken a sharp machete to the memory prices on its Power Systems,... ...full story at the register (uk)

from the register (uk) on Fri, Nov 20 2009

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