Paul,
Thanks for posting the interview with Mr. Barrett. The following goes a long way to explain why Intel should be successful with Itanium, vs. Sun:
<InfoWorld: In terms of providing the infrastructure for the digital economy, Sun has established a considerable presence. How will you compete in this space?
Barrett: There are two messages that the world is just starting to absorb, and one is the price-performance capability of freedom of choice and the innovation that goes with the openness of the platform. All the stuff that made the PC what it is today. But sometimes it takes a bit for that to get translated to the next stage, which is the back-room servers that are important for Internet infrastructure. Price-performance, freedom of choice, and the rate of innovation are the things I think will ultimately drive the marketplace. Those are the things we stand for, those are the things we believe in, and those are the things that are core to our market model.>
Price, performance, open platform, many vendors; sounds like the same winning formula from Intel.
John
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