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To: Paul Engel who wrote (76067)	10/19/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573415

<IA64 architecture: A chip set under development for Netfinity servers, based around the Merced 8-way symmetric multiprocessor, that contains copper wiring for significantly faster processing. You REALLY NEED to look at the REAL WORLD and see what is going on out there - because the Real World and Alpha are not in the same place!> We'll see how well it does given IBM is interested in selling RS/6000s, SPs and S70s and S80s. In the grand scheme of things, if Merced based Netfinity servers are in 4th or 5th place performance-wise compared to let's say HP, Compaq, Sun and IBM then it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Oracle doesn't run nearly as well as on the other platforms, why go with an unproven Netfinity based Monterey box? Again, a CPU hoping for a boast from an unproven OS and then in the face of competition. Tench thinks Merced will do quite well, I don't think it has much of a chance ... especially given Willamette. MS SQL does better on Willamette then DB2 on Merced based Monterey servers, etc. (Win64 isn't even ready this time next year, etc.) Rob