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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (82789)	12/13/1999 2:52:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571527

<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 ! > Neither would I. Compaq is already leading in most server benchmarks vis-a-vis Sun with current Xeon. Sun will get its butt kicked big time once Compaq moves to Athlon based systems. To remain competitive, Sun has to make a choice between x86 or IA-64 and I think Sun will probably make the wrong choice again and suffer the consequences of going to a low-volume platform. Good for Intel and bad for Sun. Every vendor who has bet against x86 has lost - for a good reason.