To: Dan3 who wrote (167763 ) 7/9/2002 11:24:35 AM From: wanna_bmw Read Replies (1) | Respond to Dan, Re: "how carefully did you look at those benchmarks? sap.com "A big Sun sparc supports 7000 users (all from your link)." "I will grant you that Itanium II performance is not as embarrassingly horrible as was the performance of Itanium I - in fact, on the right benchmarks, it's made it up to mediocre." every single contender out there, including Power4 on many applications."That should be all it takes to get the industry to dump decades of experience with other architectures and throw away millions of lines of code of custom business critical applications." already doing everything they can to support Itanium 2, from building the platforms, to porting the software, to creating the OS, to writing the drivers, etc. And they didn't have to dump a single line of code from their high volume businesses to do it. PA-RISC and Alpha died because HP and Compaq rightly saw that they were inferior products, unable to compete in the long term.
