Point B: Java & Solaris.
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(Clarification for those who are interested: thread level parallelism, which UltraSparc V, the result of MAJC, will make possible with up to 1024 processing cores per CPU, will drastically speed up Java and Solaris, both of which are inherently multi-threaded). In a typical web-server written in Java, there can be thousands of threads running on a single CPU. In a typical server installation of Solaris, there are thousands of threads performing O/S tasks on behalf of the other programs. Most of them will be blocked awaiting I/O, but those that contend for cycles will suddenly speed up to 100% of their CPU. No new programming skills required, especially for Java programmers.
IMO USV is Sun's masterstroke, that will finally dispatch Itanic/CISC architectures to the dustbin of history. I don't care if it takes them until 2010 to fully realize the 1024 core chip, because once they do, they are talking about a 10THz CPU, thats Terra-Hertz, 1000 GHz. Intel will barely be doing 10GHz by that point
The potential of this alone is why I am still buying SUNW.
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