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To: Rink who wrote (63921)	7/13/2006 11:39:48 AM
From: bigpictureinvestor	Respond to of 64865

ixse - Again, the main point of your postings deserves separate discussion, but I do disagree with 3) and 4) in the senses in which they have meaning for servers for small, medium or large enterprises. Low threaded apps show great throughput on Niagara, as long as there are 32 or more threads worth of apps running on the server. So if an application runs with two threads, you (in theory) need to be running 16 or more instantiations of it on the box to see optimal throughput. Among non-floating-point-intensive apps, there are a few niche programs that run low threads and can only run a single instantiation for a whole enterprise, but those are now rare. (Oracle, for example, runs very well on Niagara). And since all relevant CPU manufacturers (Intel, AMD, IBM, Sun) are moving toward multicore chip designs, they will become rarer still. Even desktop apps will be multithreaded, if they are to run well on these CPUs. W/r to 4: Applications that run on Solaris 10 just run on Niagara. Software does not "often need to be rewritten and/or recompiled" to live up to its potential. This is like saying Intel applications need to be rewritten or recompiled to run on AMD boxes; it's only the very few applications that dive into hardware bits on the system that need to be changed, and that is usually related to non-CPU hardware on the system. This binary compatibility is significant because Sun's installed base is huge. An odd thing: I hear that Linux applications have needed to be recompiled each time a newer version of Linux comes along. I don't know what % of revenue Sun is looking for from T1. But I hope T1 is not the only Niagara-based product line coming out of Sun. pic