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To: Joe NYC who wrote (125712)	1/22/2001 4:05:56 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

"I have not been keeping track, but isn't Whistler supposed to be released in 2H 2001, or even later?" Yup. Which puts Intel's fondest partner Microsoft in a bothersome "me too" role. One wonders if when Itanium boxes ship if Linus is up there on stage somewhere talking things up. Or maybe more likely the pilot systems quietly become production boxes so as to not further embarass MS. Further, since IA64 and Linux makes for a real small slice of the pie (starting from scratch, let's be fair) and Whistler's Mother for IA64 ships late in the year... gotta wait until service pack 2 or 3 for that... so maybe IA64 sales become more than a speck on the server pie-chart mid-2002. At that point, might as well wait for McKinley, eh? So I guess that Itanium was for demos and development machines after all. Don't even throw Monterey/AIX on IA64 at us. At year-end, Power4 boxes ship. Power4 is a beast. Itanium is a toy in comparison and so is McKinley for that matter. Rob