Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM

[asian1]

Hello
When I ask SuperMicro, Tyan, about their Quad Xeon, the price is
approx US$ 3000. The Quad Opteron (Newisys) is cheaper.
Perhaps IBM will port their AIX to the new machine for
running leading business apps: Oracle, RDBMS, ERP, CRM, SAP etc.

[asian1]

>Cheap AIX SMP

Hello
IF SCO win the UNIX Case against IBM, will AIX became worthless software?

Today I contacted local IBM Office. Their official reply:
IBM does not sell direct to customer! The customer should use X86 SMP
machines for low cost. IBM DOES NOT SELL PowerPC machine to customer!
The only non X86 machine is US$ 100,000 machine based on POWER4 CPU.

They ask me to contact IBM re-sellers. Their reply: WE DON'T SELL
any PowerPC machine, we only sell Windows based IBM X86 PC!!
We don't support any AIX or LINUX machine. IF you want to buy
PowerPC machine, BUY FROM APPLE!

I wonder if the machine will receive NO SUPPORT and IBM Sales WILL HATE
the machine, similar to OS/2 PRODUCTS, because IBM Sales 100% SUPPORT
INTEL & MS Monopoly.