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To: Dan3 who wrote (107545)	8/14/2000 8:36:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Dan, <I know that Itanic will boot older OSs and chug slowly through standard code, but everything I've read says that doing so results in a $500 eMachine running as fast or faster than a $25,000 Itanic server.> Please show me the TPC server benchmark results of a $500 eMachine. While you're at it, please show me the TPC server benchmark results of any AMD-based platform. <When somebody allocates 50 or 100K to replace a server, it had damn well better handle an order of magnitude greater workload than the old one.> Ever hear of scalability? Itanium servers will run 32-bit apps just fine, probably on the level of performance as an equivalently-clocked Xeon server. (This is not unreasonable to assume.) Then future performance is just a software upgrade away from 32-bit to IA-64. This ensures the longevity of the Itanium server. The current alternatives would be: - Purchase a Xeon server, which will cost less up front, but will not have the performance scalability of Itanium. Hence, the Xeon server will have a shorter life span and will need to be upgraded sooner. - Wait for Foster (still the greatest threat to Itanium in my mind). - Wait for some 64-bit vapor from a company which has yet to release even a 2-way SMP server platform. Tenchusatsu

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