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Monday, 01/23/2006 1:13:44 PM

Monday, January 23, 2006 1:13:44 PM

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IBM and Opteron

Q: HP and Sun think Opterons are good for mainstream servers.

Whitney: Other vendors don't have our x3 architecture. When you don't have the x3 architecture, to get performance levels, you have to look for other alternatives.

Q: But what about for mainstream servers--for example running Microsoft Exchange or databases?

Whitney: I have not had customers come to me asking for that.

http://news.com.com/Big+Blues+big-iron+x86+backer+-+page+3/2008-1082_3-6029463-3.html?tag=st.num

...staying the INTEL course... and quite a bit of denial.

A very timely article.




Keith

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