Fred N. van Kempen said:
>
> **THAT** was my point, yes. Enterprise customers kinda laugh at the idea of
> their stuff being of the "Intel Inside" kind, and will be almost impossible
> to be changed into that. They'll go Sun, or IBM, but will do pretty much
> anything to NOT be sucked into this "New Big PC crap", as one of them called
> it.
Heh...that description sounds about right to me.
About the only big Itanium system I'll trust will be SGI's ccNUMA system,
because it's based on the Origin3000 architecture. I KNOW there's no Intel
influence there beyond the processor itself. I'd sure like to get my hands on
one of those, when they become available...mmm...I like working for a
university ;-)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Thu Dec 12 2002 - 16:38:00 GMT