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To: Dinesh who wrote (142545)	2/12/2002 2:31:48 AM
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Dinesh, re: So, that would a litmus test, wouldn't it? May be Sun knows a few more things than we do. Maybe not, seems IBM, HP and Compaq have all dropped their processor development and placed their future in the hands of Intel's Itanium and follow ons. Just a few days ago, Larry Ellison, no big fan of Intel said Intel's IA-64 is the future. Seems to have made a big impression on Scott McNealy. re: Sun btw is also losing a lot of 1/2 cpu webservers to Linux PCs and while those are cheaper in unit price, the volume is probably substantial. Yes, they are. Hence the announcement that they would adopt Linux and sell more x86 Linux machines. They already have the Cobalt line of AMD and Intel based 1u rack servers - but the industry wants blades. Both HP and IBM are selling Intel P3 based blade system with high density all running Linux. re: The 64-256 processor Linux IMHO is not a current threat. Future, ah! we shall see. IBM just announced a system with that capacity and Larry Ellison of Oracle is saying Linux on IA is the future and you don't see the threat? Sun has been Oracle's biggest bread winner for years and the CEO up and said Sun is dead end if they don't get with the program. re: I don't see customers driving in big numbers to load up on those S/390 class machines running Linux Of course they won't sell that many, but the Sun E10K line is getting long in the tooth for those that bought a few years ago. Customers will need to decide if they want the E15K or switch to a most likely cheaper IBM Linux based machine running the same DBM (Oracle in many cases). re: Maybe you have better data, you can share here. Do you have any or would you actually see sales of mainframe class Linux systems or was that just a figure of speach?

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