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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (134690)	5/11/2001 3:23:18 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Oh, everybody is quaking in their boots over the allegedly immanent Itanic launch.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (134690)	5/11/2001 4:45:55 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tench, <By the way, you sound rather nervous [about Itanium nearly launched]. You should be.> Its public knowledge that today Linux is Beta for IA64 and WinXP/Win2002 isn't around for a while, so there really isn't a viable OS for the launch on May 29th. Six months from now look a whole lot different. Seems like the launch is being rushed at IBM's insistence and will be a bumpy marketing job at first. theregister.co.uk "It's ready to ship as soon as Intel allows us to do so," said Steve Horobin, IBM Personal Systems Group's EMEA workstation marketing chief with special responsibility for the finance sector (but not job titles, clearly). Merced wasn't meant to be a development platform but LOOONNNGGG slippages made it that way. At least that is IBM's view: news.cnet.com "Every vendor's plans have changed considerably. We had much more aggressive plans 18 months ago," said Jay Bretzmann, product marketing manager for IBM's X series of servers. "It makes a lot more sense to shift development and focus to McKinley." --- Repeated non-launches doomed Merced. Merced is Dead... Long Live McKinley. Rob