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Chipguy, re: I predicted that IPF would continue to grow sales and enjoy OEM and ISV support.

Yes you did and you were right, but you were wrong a lot of times as well. So what? I asked you if you are neutral enough to judge Ashlee. You chose not to answer that question directly. Your answer instead included heart-felt emotion. Why?

re: I know the size of the server market. And I also know that ...

Yeah you know now but I asked the question in past tense. You answered at least partly in present tense. Now, you didn't know at the time that Itanium wouldn't take a single digit cpu sales away from mid to high end Xeon market, did you? In fact you thought the opposite, namely that it would take part of that market away from x86 Xeons, for the reason that x86 wouldn't gain 64b capabilities any time this soon, isn't that right? Let's not get into the exact IDC estimate but it was based on the exact same reasoning, right?

Just to be complete I think you know that I find some of your posts highly informative. I have for a couple of years now hoped for even more balance though.

Regards,

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