12 Dec
2002
12 Dec
'02
4:38 p.m.
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(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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