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To: Charles R who wrote (82749)	12/13/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571425

Chuckles - Re: "If moving people to new instruction sets were so easy why didn't MIPS, Alpha, Intel's own 860 succeed? " Answer - Intel's Pentium and Pentium Follow on chips. Re: " The fraction of applications that get ported to IA-64 will probably be less than 10% of x86 applications 5 years out." Let's see - how many x86 applications are there - 75,000 or 200,000 ? Actually, it doesn't much matter. ITanium is not meant to be a WINDOWS CPU. I don't think its the sheer volume - its's the ENTERPRISE NATURE of applications. Big Software for Big Silicon (ITanium). That's the ticket. IA64 CPUs will be the heart of ENTERPRISE SERVERS in just a few short years - and most of these are currently UNIX based. Since UNIX already RUNS on ITanium - Monterey, Linux, Solaris 64 - Intel's presence in the ENTERPRISE SERVER segment will have a HIGH PROBABILITY of going from near zero% to >50% in 3 or 4 years. Paul

To: Charles R who wrote (82749)	12/13/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571425

Chuckles - Re: "Sun's bumbling with UltraSparc may be the best thing that has happened to Merced. Score one for Intel." Last word I heard was that the UltraSparc III was STILL NOT completely functional as of 2 weeks ago, and that is 9 months after first tape out (March, 1999) which itself was 12 months late ! Funny, the media press and analysts have nothing but great and grand things to say about SUN ! I wouldn't be surprised if SUN wasn't one of the second group of systems houses to offer an ITanium Server - late next year ! Paul