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To: Dan3 who wrote (83094)	6/20/2002 8:08:41 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Dan, you are comparing an 8-way Sun Fire V880 machine with 32GB of memory against a 4-way Itanium 1 system with 8GB of memory. Since both memory size and the number of processors make a huge difference in enterprise applications, I hardly consider this an apples to apples comparison. 2.5x to 3x performance is good, but double the processors and add 4 times the memory, and it is going to cost a lot more. Besides, Sun's cost model is already far higher than any Itanium based one to begin with. And once you put Itanium 2 into the equation, Sun is likely to be at a big disadvantage. Edit: This is the one that Intel will want to exceed (by at least 25%) if they want Itanium 2 and the IA-64 concept to succeed. I think they have a good chance, IMO. sap.com wbmw

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