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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (52842)	8/28/2001 7:00:38 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, Re: "a P4 2.0 at 1/7 the price of an Itanium not even counting the motherboard cost." If you were to ask most large businesses to list in order of importance which features they care about the most in an enterprise computer, cost would not be in the top 5. The top 5 things that businesses care about (in no particular order are) 1) The level of reliability. This must be a combination of CPU, platform, and software reliability, and it far surpasses the levels that people are familiar with on the desktop. Itanium is built for those kinds of high reliability situations. 2) The level of server management, including the Machine Check Architecture, that is present within the Itanium CPU. This allows for easy upgradability, easy servicability, easy debug, and easy repairability. 3) The level of scalability. Often times, the platform is the most important part of the server. Itanium, especially McKinley, was designed for high bandwidth platforms to be able to expand to multiple processors without weighing down the system. 4) The level of support. Right now, support has been overwhelming for Itanium. Many OEMs are risking quite a bit to put their full marketing on this architecture. Software is also being optimized to take advantage of the advanced features in Itanium. 5) The level of performance. The first iteration of Itanium has showed mediocre integer performance, and exceptional floating point performance. I expect future versions of McKinley to be more balanced. Performance will definitely increase as Intel masters the new architecture, and Itanium has already gone off on a good start. wanna_bmw