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To: Scumbria who wrote (134990)	5/14/2001 7:05:03 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, LOL So what should they do, put a dozen cars and cell phones in the computer room and string some CAT5?

To: Scumbria who wrote (134990)	5/14/2001 8:55:42 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria,<<< Eric, the world of IT will be lining up to deploy Itanium based servers later this month. LOL Scumbria >>> I basically agree with you that the simple x86 cluster based computing is very powerful and can do a lot of the stuff that mainframes are currently doing. I thought that when the 386 first came out that it was capable of doing 90% of the applications that mainframes were doing at the time. I still think that. But, I have also since found out that the real world is a lot more complex than I could ever imagine. In a similar vein (you may think I'm digressing, but I'm not) Karl Marx underestimated the complexity of the real world. Many of his thoughts were quite elegant on paper, and appeared painfully obvious, - only he had no idea how the real world operated and how complex it was. In the same way, you suffer from a similar hubris. You think you understand things where you don't really have a clue. The server market, and marketing to that segment, is something you don't have a clue. The server market is now about $60B a year market and is projected to grow by about 14% a year. The Mainframe (which IBM has dubbed as a server) has about 25% of that market. The Unix systems have about 50% of that market. The remainder is X86 stuff. Most of which belongs to Intel (xeon). The Itanium is aimed at the middle of that market and will capture most of it. Trust me on that, young man. This is something that you know very little about. Mary