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To: JDN who wrote (26914)	1/28/2000 3:00:00 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Yes, I saw that Sun Micro press release. A couple of things surprised even me! "peak memory and I/O bandwidths of 2.4 Gb/sec" & "a roadmap carrying the processor architecture into 2002 at up to 1.0 GHz" Where do you think IA64 will be at that time. I reckon it will be well past 1GHz and the Intel 840 chipset already delivers 3.2Gb/sec of memory bandwidth. OK, so the 1000 way scalability is impressive, but how many customers demand that? Heard of Windows Load Balancing? Wintel gets a good pasting for reliability, scalability et. There is reason for this. The architecture has been compromised to the benefit of suitability to a large number of applications. There was the choice of going for the ultra reliable/ultra scalable or to go for the platform that would give the widest range of easy to create applications. You can't have both. Intel has recognised this. Hence the Intel roadmap that shows IA32 & IA64 running in parallel for the next ten years. You will have Windows NT4/2000 running on IA32 and you will have Windows 2000 datacentre edition running on IA64. Obviously Sun is a large, switched on company that knows what it is up against. I just don't see their defence being that strong.