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To: muzosi who wrote (185444)	1/27/2006 4:37:05 AM
From: aleph0	Respond to of 275872

Interesting comments on Itanium - good interview ! Thx I find it incredible that they continue to invest money into this project. Still.. I'd see it as a positive for AMD. As Hester said, X86-Architecture is viewed by the purists as being "not elegant" - which is correct - but it works , and also has a massive software-code base, i.e. probably 98% minimum market share of binaries. The line-up below ....makes me laugh somewhat ! // Besides Intel and H-P, members of a group called the Itanium Solutions Alliance that participated in a news conference in San Francisco include Bull SA, Hitachi Ltd., Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Siemens Computers BV, NEC Corp., Unisys Corp. and Silicon Graphics Inc. // It reminds me of the title of the German Computer-Woche in ca. 1982. There was a line-up of ca. 12 well-known (at the time) companies with a photo of each CEO, across the top of the front-page. The title was "We unite with Unix together" ( or something like that ) to give the customer a standard binary platform. IBM was strangely absent from the list ;-) Nothing came out of it apart from 36 official Unix dialects. One young kid with Linux beat them all by going Open-Source and X86 ! IMO, it proves that customers do not want an exotic proprietry solution; IMO they want a solid, simple, standard and cheap as possible solution.