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To: bhagavathi who wrote (106254)	7/27/2000 2:53:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

>Wasn't NASDAQ supposed to be a partner with IA 64 pilot program? I think there were press releases to this a few months ago. Or is it IA32 program? My point is customers will still want to evaluate their choices when a time for upgrade comes. At that time it would be nice for CPQ to have an alternative, rather than force a hardware solution down the throat of a customer. Well, you have your reliable systems, your highly reliable systems and your extremely reliable systems. The last category is called non-stop by Compaq in the advertisements, and what they are referring to is the classic Tandem, or NSK (non-stop Kernel) systems, like Himalaya. In these, practically everything is redundant except the building they're kept in. NASDAQ, for their main host systems, will I'm sure continue to want to use these. I haven't heard of any plans to build IA-64 systems in such extremely reliable configurations. SGI is doing something like 64 CPU Itanium systems, but I don't know what they're doing about RAS. Tony

To: bhagavathi who wrote (106254)	7/27/2000 6:26:47 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Mula - re: At that time it would be nice for CPQ to have an alternative, rather than force a hardware solution down the throat of a customer. Let's see - CPQ will be able to offer IA32 based systems from 1U high density all the way to 32 way, running Linux or Win2K or whatever other mainstream OS runs on the platform, at price points ranging from under $1K to over $500K. They will offer IA64 systems from 4 way to 32 way at prices from around $5K to over $1M, again supporting every mainstream OS which is out there. They will offer Alpha systems from 2P up to 256 way running OpenVMS or Tru64 at prices from around $10K to over $2M. They will offer Himalaya up to 4096 way running the non-stop kernel (NSK) at prices in the millions or tens of millions. Is that enough customer choice or should their be more?