The world’s first OpenPOWER App Throwdown was held at IBM’s Enterprise2014 conference in Las Vegas to recognize some of the most innovative applications being developed to solve real business challenges.
After reviewing 21 submissions, the competition was narrowed down to five finalists – Information Builders, ARGOS Computer Systems, Redis Labs, Zato Health, and Zend Technologies which pitched their Linux on Power solution through social media and gained votes by the number of mentions they received.
The winner was Information Builders which built WebFOCUS 8, a reporting application running on Linux on Power that evaluates performance of Power compared to x86 machines. The company also created OEM Workload for Power that shows which POWER8 architecture would fit best for customers based on workloads.
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