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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (164510)	4/24/2002 3:39:45 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

wbmw, How do you know that Itanium doesn't offer anything above x86? What if the scalability and performance far exceed what x86 can do? We have yet to see McKinley performance numbers, but it could be quite impressive. I didn't say "offer", I said "contribute". MSFT sells OSs and applications. That's their revenue. Itanium has not contributed anything up to now, is not contributing anything currently, and chances are, MSFT will never get any return ont their investment from Itanium sales. If there was not enough hesitation already about going with Itanium, there will be more when Intel announces support for x86-64 (companible or not). There was a rumor that it would happen around June, just in time to knock the wind out of McKinley sales (I mean sails). The only saving grace is that maybe up to 80% of money and work that went into Itanium support can be re-used by x86-64 CPU based OS and applications. Joe