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Water Cooler => General OpenPOWER Discussion => Topic started by: pocock on March 02, 2026, 05:45:40 pm
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I put up a fresh blog about Queensland Health's IBM fiasco (https://danielpocock.com/en/queensland-health-payroll-system-ibm-billion-dollar-blowout-inquiry/). 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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Daniel, I'm not sure what this article means exactly. If we're talking about Power, IBM has continued to support it for years and continues to invest a lot of money, which obviously means it's profitable. Power 11 was launched in the summer of last year, from what I understand, but it's still unclear whether it's completely open source or still has binary firmware. We know that ultimately it only depends on the Raptor firmware, whether or not they can design a new system... But as for its overall presence, I think there's no doubt about it.
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The future of POWER: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing