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Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER
« on: March 02, 2026, 05:45:40 pm »
I put up a fresh blog about Queensland Health's IBM fiasco.  The whole company, including POWER components, was subject to a ban for 12 years in the state of Queensland public sector.

It is worth reading the official report and thinking about how it translates to behaviour in the Linux ecosystem.

Has anybody got any feeling about the future of the POWER platform?

Are any other vendors likely to come forward with a 100% open CPU like the POWER9?
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