If you took us out of the Unix market you'd actually see a shrinking Unix market, or flat, as Gartner calls it.

This announcement clearly widens an already large gap between IBM and our competitors.

Nobody has anything that comes even close to touching the p5 595.

IBM's UNIX® systems have set the industry standard for price and performance for the last 5 years, earning IBM the pole position in this competitive marketplace. With these new products, the AIX® Collaboration Center and the IBM Migration Factory, we have widened the competitive gap even further, deliver more computing power for the money for our clients and making it easier than ever to switch to IBM.

If (software companies) stand to gain additional business, and if customers are feeling a pain that the solution addresses, then the ecosystem occurs naturally. If the market doesn't really want the stack, it could cost about US$50 million to US$100 million a year.

If (software companies) stand to gain additional business, and if customers are feeling a pain that the solution addresses, then the ecosystem occurs naturally. If the market doesn't really want the stack, it could cost about $50 million to $100 million a year.