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To: tejek who wrote (82190)	12/7/1999 3:12:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1578505

Tejerk - Re: "Dan, I agree with everything you say and I think itanium will be a disappointment....." You and AlibiDan better get hold of IBM - and tell them to quit wasting their time on ITanium and IA/64. Paul {=======================================} newsalert.com December 06, 1999 09:16 SCO and IBM Team Up to Take eBusiness Solutions and Project Monterey to Retailers Across America; Companies Kick Off Free Retail Technology Seminar Series Jump to first matched term SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1999--Preparing retailers for a new wave of retail technology, SCO (Nasdaq:SCOC) today announced the SCO and IBM Retail Technology Seminar Series -- a free, one-day seminar that brings industry experts together and educates retailers about the benefits of UNIX on Intel eBusiness and Monterey/64. "SCO and IBM have been working together for many years now to provide the retail industry with the most advanced solutions," said Mike Orr, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing, SCO. "The goal of the seminar series is to bring SCO's and IBM's expertise and powerful, UNIX based retail solutions to customers so they can maintain a competitive edge with an efficient, cost-saving, server-based computing environment." Retail Seminar Details Top leaders in the retail industry will lead panel discussions on the business benefits of IBM and SCO server solutions, UNIX on Intel eBusiness, and network computing. Attendees will also get a closer look at the Monterey/64 platform designed for Intel's Itanium processor. Retailers will learn how to implement and deploy these latest technologies, as well as extend existing applications for server-based computing. "As we cross over into the next millennium, retailers will be increasingly challenged to stay competitive and meet diverse customer requirements," said Sandy Carter, director of Netfinity's Partnerworld, IBM. "Together, IBM and SCO offer solutions and technology that will help retailers soar ahead of their competition. These seminars will educate retailers on how to utilize the power of this technology, in a fast, cost-effective way." Retail Seminar Dates -- Dec. 7, 1999 -- Baltimore -- Dec. 9, 1999 -- Chicago -- Jan. 15, 2000 -- New York -- Jan. 24, 2000 -- San Francisco For information about a free seminar in your area, call 973/252-0100 (ext. 202) Project Monterey Background Announced in October 1998, Project Monterey is a major UNIX operating system initiative led by IBM, SCO and Intel. The objective of the Project Monterey initiative is to establish a volume, enterprise-class UNIX product line that runs across Intel IA-32 and IA-64 processors and IBM's POWER processors in systems that range from departmental to large data center servers. As part of this initiative, a volume UNIX operating system is being developed for Intel's IA-64 processors using technologies from IBM's AIX and NUMA-Q brands and SCO's UnixWare. Many leading hardware and software providers have announced support for the Project Monterey initiative. About SCO SCO is a global leader in server-based software for networked business computing. SCO is the world's number one provider of UNIX server operating systems, and the leading provider of network computing software that enables clients of all kinds -- including PCs, graphical terminals, NCs, and other devices -- to have Webtop access to business-critical applications running on servers of all kinds. SCO designed Tarantella software, the world's first web-enabling software for network computing. SCO sells and supports its products through a worldwide network of distributors, resellers, systems integrators, and OEMs. For more information, see SCO's home page at www.sco.com. Note to Editors: SCO, The Santa Cruz Operation, the SCO logo and UnixWare are trademarks or registered trademarks of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. in the USA and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the US and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners. CONTACT: SCO, Santa Cruz Jodi Reinman, 831/427-7047 Jodire@sco.com

To: tejek who wrote (82190)	12/7/1999 3:14:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1578505

Tejerk - Re: "Dan, I agree with everything you say and I think itanium will be a disappointment....." You and AlibiDan better get hold of IBM - and tell them to quit wasting their time developing ITanium and IA/64 Chip Sets !. Paul {===========================} infoworld.com IBM to revamp Netfinity core chipset for Windows 2000 By Bob Trott IBM will announce a new core chipset for its Netfinity product line in early 2000 that is designed to improve the server's scalability and availability, officials said, at Big Blue's Center for Microsoft Technologies here on Monday. With the chipset, called Summit, the goal is to further IBM's OnForever Windows server initiative, according to Tom Bradicich, Netfinity architecture program director. "We can't find scalability, performance and, most importantly, high availability in a commodity chipset," said Bradicich. "[Summit] will be blazingly fast, extremely reliable and highly scalable." For microprocessors, the core chipset will enhance partitioning and hot-swapping capabilities, and will serve as a multiprocessing building block, Bradicich said. On the input/output (I/O) end of the system, Summit will incorporate remote I/O (RIO), which is not yet an industry standard; double PCI-X capabilities for keeping systems online all the time; and embrace the InfiniBand I/O initiative being worked on by IBM, Microsoft, and others. InfiniBand, which should be published in specification form in the first quarter of 2000, is a technology that will allow direct channel connections between multiple I/O devices, so one failure will not bring down an entire system. "I/O is slow, and the multiprocessor is fast, so therefore often the multiprocessor waits (on I/O)," Bradicich said. The first products to feature the Summit chipset, which is focused on Intel's IA-64 architecture, will be available in late 2001, according to Bradicich. Bradicich spoke at Big Blue's press briefing on support for Microsoft's Windows 2000, which is due to ship to manufacturing by the end of the year, and launch on Feb. 17. IBM's Center for Microsoft Technology, based in Kirkland, Wash., is at www.ibm.corp/. Microsoft, in Redmond, Wash., is at www.microsoft.com/. Bob Trott is an InfoWorld associate news editor based in Seattle.