> Power 9 would [...] run our current software.

...with an OS API as it is now, not with a MorphOS as envisioned by amigadave :-)

> Power 9 platform would run SAM460 or X5000 emulation better the X64 systems [...]
> Power 9's instruction set is related to PPC

Even better: POWER9, PPC440 and e5500 all implement Power ISA :-)

> if a larger than ATX, 2 socket board can be built for only a few hundred
> more than an X5000, couldn't a 1 socket ATX board be built for less?

Less than the dual-socket EATX board? Yes. Less than Cyrus/X5000? I don't think so.