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{To wbmw] so what you claim is that it is possible to achieve the same scalability with Xeons as with RISC, but for this you need to use the very expensive hardware, not awailable for 4- and 8-way systems. The secret of success of low-cost Xeon systems with very bad scalability is the fact that Sun can't offer similar performance with their low-cost servers.

You're doing it again. You are comparing tomorrow's Vaperon with today's Xeon. You wouldn't like it if he compared tomorrow's Xeon with today's nonexistent Vaperon now would you? As wbmw said, Intel has gotten back into the server chipset business. Maybe there's a cheaper solution in the works?