Actually it is the same article, with the WRONG conclusion - cut and pasted around the web. The Cisco blades cost about the same, but their new design lets them reduce the infrastructure - switches, chassis, power supply and management modules. So total system cost is about 30% less in total - not 2/3rds less, according to the actual Cisco presentation that I saw.

It doesn't say 1/3 less, it says 1/3 of, ie 2/3 less. And if you google around, you'll find plenty of other sources quoting the same figures.

Nick - nobody sells systems containing hundreds of servers for a third less than other players - how come no alarm bells went off that maybe the other flack got it wrong before you Nicked it. You ought to read the materials before pasting a story into a column. Will thye change your byline to "Nick n Clip" instead of "Cut and Paste".

I used to come to theinq for good stuff, I now come to see (and grin at) Nick's duffer style journalism.

"which is a third of the price of a normal version"

Normal version? of blades? you're such a muppet!