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To: tcmay who wrote (164414)	4/22/2002 2:00:28 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tim, Re: "Whether these companies should be going it alone on a building block, or letting Intel do the manufacturing, is debatable. But the notion that any of these companies is going to be building fault-tolerant, transaction-oriented, robust systems on a Clawhammer is just plain silly." I agree with the Clawhammer and silly part, but if Compaq and HP decide not to use Itanium, then what's left? I would expect the two companies by now to have a great deal of infrastructure invested in Itanium, and if the merger goes through, that's even more of a reason why the two might combine their Itanium efforts to really make a killing with it in the "enterprise" market (or whatever you prefer to call it). wbmw

To: tcmay who wrote (164414)	4/22/2002 2:28:34 AM
From: Saturn V	Respond to of 186894

Ref <But the notion that any of these companies is going to be building fault-tolerant, transaction-oriented, robust systems on a Clawhammer is just plain silly> I agree that the odds of seeing an enterprise computing platform based on the Clawhammer within the next 2-3 years are remote. This market is going to be a contest between Power 4, Sparc, and the Itanium. However the Clawhammer may win out on 64 bit desktop or consumer applications if a dual 32bit/64bit operating system by Microsoft becomes available within the next one year.[The operating system has to do what Windows95 did. It ran both 32 bit and 16bit applications.] So the x86-64 operating system will have to run both 32bit and 64bit applications. So there are a lot of IFs in my statements. We do not even know if any 64bit consumer applications will show up in the next few years.