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To: paul who wrote (32959)	6/20/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 64865

Re: Question is how long will it take for Linux to have the Scalability and RAS of a commercial OS paul, A friend of mine that's been into Linux forever told me a company in the Valley put 8 guys on a project working on clustering Linux. In 2 months they had got farther than an entire team at Microsoft who have been working on Windows clustering for years. A major problem for Windows is that developers have no idea what the code looks like. A friend of mine interned in Seattle last summer and didn't get to see one piece of source code. Linux has a big comunity of capable programmers out there. A lot of the Linux guru's know the OS inside and out and are capable of getting work done very fast and at a very high quality. I don't know how this will play out, but IBM is supporting multiple Linux instances across the AS/400 and 390's. This way, even if one instance of Linux crashes, the server won't. I don't view this as an ideal way to run things, but we'll see. Project Monteray should provide a very stable OS for IA64, but too bad the hardware is really going to suck. HP and CPQ have already signed up to get their future chips fabbed by IBM using the copper and SOI process. Intel is a long ways away from copper or SOI. As a Sun investor, I would not be happy with the current TI situation, but the alternatives look grim. I've heard TI has a good operation, but I'd have more faith in a company that focused more on chips. With CPQ and HP going to IBM for fabbing, the options are looking like very few. Being that McNealy has made a point of embarrassing IBM on every chance he's had for the past few years, I seriously doubt that is an option. Sun investors better hope that TI comes through big time, or it might get far worse than a 24-way IBM system beating a 64-way E10000 on almost every benchmark. It's hard to put a figure on those extra 40 chips required to be competitive. R&D is a mysterious figure on 64-bit chips (this makes IA64 so appealing if Intel hadn't screwed up). chic