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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (44518)	8/18/2001 1:42:23 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Even if Itanium delivers on it's hype it is still light years away from displacing ultrasparc for enterprise computing. Why you ask? Well quite simply it takes an OS tuned for the architecture so that the upper level applications can actually benefit from the horsepower - scalability across multiple CPU's is the key to enterprise applications. Not only that it takes a high throughput i/o subsystem as well. Without that Itanium is just another desktop processor. Sun has been honing it's hardware and OS for years so I don't see Itanium as much of a threat in the next two years. Competition wise I think IBM is poised to give Sun a run for the money in the mid to high end UNIX tier. The low end server tier is a free for all. IMHO