Dell talking about how good IBM servers are against HP!?!?!?
OK, I admit, I sometimes work in a very strange industry. It's very unusual in other industries to talk about how great your competition is... when you have nothing to go against it. But in this case, it had the effect of showing a lot of things. According to The Register, in a recent conference call, Dell talked up how a dual-core Intel system is finally beating an dual-core Opteron system... which would be somewhat big news, since AMD clearly is making a better processor nowadays. They created the x64 instruction set stolen by Intel, and have consistently had their backsides handed to them in benchmark after benchmark. However, there is a now a specific case of an Intel-based server beating an AMD-based server. But, if you read the article, you'll see that (1) the Intel system won't ship until March, 2006 (2) the HP system is the next release of the shipping, reliable, trusted DL585, with the release shipping in a week, and (3) the Intel system Dell is very proud of is in fact an IBM system, because Dell has nothing to offer in the category remotely close to the performance (let alone price/performance) of either system.
How very interesting.
Makes me very happy we strongly recommend the Proliant line across the board.