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To: pgerassi who wrote (140205)7/26/2001 3:23:05 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Pete, nice piece of circumlocution. You could have just said, "That all depends on what your definition of 'server' is," and I would have wholeheartedly agreed with you.

But the original point still stands. Clusters of small form-factor servers have their purpose and their cost advantages, but they are not going to replace the back-end database servers where the core of business transaction processing takes place. This is where Intel wants to break into with Itanium, which itself represents both a performance and a price/performance advantage over traditional big iron guys.

Speaking of which, there are signs that AMD is giving up trying to pursue the 4-way and 8-way space with Sledgehammer. My prediction is coming true:

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