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To: JC Jaros who wrote (35232)	9/12/2000 5:53:51 PM
From: techtonicbull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Release date of US III? September 22, 2000 or __________?

To: JC Jaros who wrote (35232)	9/12/2000 9:33:45 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

JC - unfortunately, it's not that simple. Each increase in number of processors puts stress on interprocessor communication, cache access, memory access, and management of I/O. The architecture that works for 64 processors may hit the wall at 128. But even if the hardware does not bottleneck, the OS does - and so it needs to be reworked and tuned for the bigger space. Still, we're nowhere near done - the applications themselves don't always scale. Oracle has a significant pinch point at 24 processors, for example. Note that SUNW has not been using Oracle on recent benchmarks. But in general your comment is correct - there will always be a market for a larger version of whatever is currently in use, and given SUNW's recent sales, they have created an annuity for large system sales which can be mined for years to come if they just execute.