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To: gzubeck who wrote (196966)5/15/2006 10:13:45 PM
From: DRBESRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
re: "idiot savant with tunnel vision" redundancy and the savant part really does not fit



To: gzubeck who wrote (196966)5/15/2006 10:21:52 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
gz,

SGI stuck with Intel for years and ignored AMD's cheaper opteron coming down the line...

The "cheaper" part is not clear. Intel must have given SGI a lot of Itaniums for free. But in turn, Itanium only solution limited SGI to 20% (SGI's figure) of HPC market.

Joe