To: EricRR who wrote (104918 ) 6/26/2000 10:19:00 PM From: Paul Engel Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
RatBrain - Re: "You have yet to answer why this 5 year in the making chip will not be able to beat an on the market Alpha in floating point. " Says whom ? The ITanium will be very competitive with the Alpha in all floating point applications. Maybe even faster ! Re: "And as for servers, I bring you back to a very old question I asked you: Is Intel making a JVM for Itanium? If not, scratch the server side java market (hint: when you go to a web page and it says "www.***.com/****/***.JSP") " Yep - Java for IA64 is on its way : {====================================} "Monday January 31, 8:08 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Lutris Technologies Receives Investment From the Intel 64 Fund and Trans Cosmos Lutris to Utilize Investment to Help Increase Industry Momentum of the Enhydra Application Server SANTA CRUZ, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000--Lutris Technologies, a leader in Open Source Java/XML application server software and associated professional services, today announced the successful completion of its Series B round of financing. Investors in the current round include the Intel 64 Fund and Trans Cosmos USA, a leading global strategic investment and business development company with experience in helping Internet companies expand into the Asian market. The investment brings the round to a total of $15 million, with the original investment in November 1999 from Chase Capital Partners and Chase H&Q, formerly Hambrecht & Quist. {=================================} Re: "as for workstation users who happen to be lucky enough not to care about x86 software, there is a clear winner: the Alpha!" Oh yeah - the Alpha is quite a loser on x86 code. By the way - when was the last time Alpha had a design win outside of Compaq? Paul