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To: PCSS who wrote (2201)	11/15/2002 12:59:18 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

Where Does Capellas' Departure Leave HP? At least $14M poorer. good scam.

To: PCSS who wrote (2201)	11/15/2002 1:03:28 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

Article seems mostly a rehash, until you get to the part about microsoft, and the last three paragraphs. That would fit in with this announcement by IBM from the register: IBM racks up 128 CPUs with P655 By John Leyden Posted: 15/11/2002 at 13:36 GMT IBM today launched an ultra dense Unix server targeted at the high performance computing and supercomputer markets. The eServer p655 packs 128 POWER4 processors in a single rack and is available in four or eight processor building blocks. It has a maximum performance of half a trillion operations per second at maximum configurations. Four way versions of the p655 are expected to begin shipping in volume later this year. The p655 will run the AIX 5L operating system, including Version 5.1, and Linux. IBM anticipates that one or more Linux distributors will support 64-bit Linux in the first half of 2003. The eServer p655 is designed for applications that require very large databases or massively parallel processing, typically needed by companies in sectors like digital media and life sciences. It also positions the eServer p655 as suitable a platform for running business intelligence applications. IBM says the eServer p655 offers higher density and superior price/performance compared to alternatives such as Itanium 2 server clusters. A single eServer p655 rack with 128 POWER4 processors occupies only one-sixth the floor space of an HP rx5670 Itanium2 system with the same number of processors. Additionally, a four-way eServer p655 with 1.3 GHz POWER4 processors has a SPECfp_rate2000 of 51.7, offering 15 per cent better throughput than a HP rx5670 with four processors. In a measurement of sustained memory bandwidth, the eServer p655 hits almost 2.5 times the peak theoretical memory bandwidth of the HP Itanium 2 systems (6.4 GB/sec2) in a tuned version of the Stream benchmark. eServer p655 systems supports clustering and logical partitioning. The product also incorporates IBM's Chipkill and bit-steering memory high availability technologies. Prices for the four-way version of the eServer p655 start at £57,359.

To: PCSS who wrote (2201)	11/15/2002 1:14:03 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4345

I am specially concerned over the article's characterization of MC as a tech guy, and Carly as not tech. On the other hand, it was the "tech guy" who sold off the alpha team to intel.