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To: Joe NYC who wrote (85714)	7/24/2002 4:11:42 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, I liked this part: If IBM's DB2 engineers like Opteron's performance, they had to have been comparing it to something. It's also safe to assume that those same engineers had access to the fastest Itanium 2 prototypes (perhaps those based on IBM's EXA chipset). If I had to take a wild guess, Opteron might very well be doing some slam dunks against IA-64 behind closed doors. Whether that's the case or not remains to be seen. Pravin

To: Joe NYC who wrote (85714)	7/24/2002 4:16:00 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: "The first reason was that it only took two days to do the port. "Porting" is a process that developers typically go through to take an application that runs on one platform, and make it run on another. Some applications are more portable than others and, according to Tetpon, DB2 was designed from the bottom up with portability in mind. "That's why," says Tetpon, "it only took two days." If "we're doing it because we can" is reason enough, I have a list of processors that IBM should start porting DB2 to as well." This is by far the most compelling point for Opteron. I am seriously astounded by this statement. The rest of the article was either fluff or optimistic speculation. wbmw