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To: Paul Engel who wrote (123681)	12/24/2000 3:28:37 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

What must frost your popsicle is that the Alpha IS shipping and it NEVER WAS AND NEVER WILL be an inbustry standard ! --- True... all true. However, that wasn't my point. My point (which you so readily clipped) was that the whole Itanium thing is nothing but Vapor. So much so , that it is two years out until product ships from the Jan 4, 2000 demo. We've been having the same on again/off again back and forths about Itanium and it still isn't here. MPR folks have crashed hard talking up Itanium, they don't know what to believe anymore. If you dredge up some of what we talked about over the last 2 years, it was certain it would be shipping volume by now. You believed they would be shipping systems (other than pilot) by now. Now we see May 2001 for workstations. That's a 1998 part in a 2001 workstation (look at bandwidth for instance). So we wait. Returning to the questions that haunt: Who buys it if IA32 outperforms in database metrics? If Whistler ain't ready in May (we know that), how good does it do pushing Linux? Rob