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To: Rob Young who wrote (104760)	6/22/2000 12:36:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Rob, what I meant is that the phrase "author condemns Itanium to death", or whatever, was a poster's conclusion about the article, not the author's. The more people that perpetuate the phrase above (in quotes) the more casual readers here will believe that the AUTHOR said that, which he didn't. If the Itanium is $4000 for 800 MHz and 4 MB Cache and performs equivalent to $1200 dollars worth of IA32 parts, you have a solution begging for a problem (i.e. Itanium 4 processor can handle 16 Gigs of memory, large memories and we know that all major DB vendors of 32-bit "hacks" to hide the memory limitations, etc.) I'm sure Intel marketing will figure out how to price it. I think most everyone knows that Itanium is the ice breaker, and platform establisher, whereas McKinley should be the performance competitor with Alpha, etc. Tony