Very true. The most powerful supercomputer in the world (Titan) is now AMD based. Basic economics would suggest the market will pursue whatever option is the most flexible and cost effective.
Intel does have a knack for surprising, though, so you never want to count them out.
I think that they will have success in the server market, but it is going to take time. It is also going to require a shift in the way infrastructure is viewed. I think that virtualization is going to be a factor that aids this change. Despite its marketing prowess, I don't think that engineers are that devoted to Intel solutions. This could be especially true if ARM solutions prove to provide effecient and low cost processing.
There is a risk, certainly that the Open Source movement could be compromised, but ultimately the only reason it's so publicly visible in the first place is thanks to corporations like Google, IBM, Intel, etc.
The reason I mention it is because one key to ARM's sucess in the server market (or lack thereof) will be the degree of virtualization support for the new architecture. AMD has some of the best price-v-performance server virtualization chips out there (Opteron 6400), so its ARM Opterons will (hopefully) continue that tradition.
I'm not sure what the correlation is between VMWare first distribution and the release of 64-bit ARM servers that you indicate here. Is there going to be some sort of customization for ARM for this?
While I believe that ARM has a future in the server market, it's going to take time. As a result, the open source community make likely be the early adopters for somthing like this. Here's hoping that they also accept VMWare. I think that they will, it will just take time.
I see this a right step in the right direction for VMware point of view. The cloud requires more flexible operating system that controls a unified pools of compute, network and storage and easily provisioned resources. Any step that takes us closer to that would be beneficial to the businesses.
It's always entertaining to watch the dance between proprietary and open-source organizations. In many cases, the open-source would not exist without the proprietary -- either there's a need not being met by the proprietary, or they've demonstrated that something is possible, and somebody who can't afford the high-priced option will create something that works similarly, but doesn't have the outrageous price tag (or, in many cases, the rich feature set). The danger, of course, is that the True Believers will get loose and go off spouting nonsense about how having a commercial vendor involved in the process is sacrilege and against the natural order. You're absolutely right, Ms. Fisher -- most of today's standards, including Linux, would not be in their current form without the input and aid of those commercial vendors. What does an over-zealous nature add to the discourse, or the standard? The answer tends to be "precious little."
back in the days of the IETF, when all of a sudden the big vendors realized that that's where all the Internet protocols were coming from and all started joining the committees and showing up to meetings. In fact, the big companies were the ones who could afford to devote people to standardization efforts and pay for people to go to meetings and such. So it's certainly good in the short term that vendors realize the value of standardization efforts, but I hope the mechanism is such that they don't take over the process.
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