I think the formula is simple — if the amount of idle developer time waiting for development gear + the cost of development gear + the cost of porting your software to POWER > the potential cost saving of POWER, don’t touch it.
If POWER unlocks something fundamentally new and historically impossible on X86, like ARM unlocked cell phones, and such, maybe that’s another reason to try it.
At the end of the day, nobody got fired for choosing x86. Its well understood, it’s cheap, development tools are accessible, and it works.
If POWER unlocks something fundamentally new and historically impossible on X86, like ARM unlocked cell phones, and such, maybe that’s another reason to try it.
At the end of the day, nobody got fired for choosing x86. Its well understood, it’s cheap, development tools are accessible, and it works.