This is about reducing administrative costs more than about security. |
This isn't a new generation of servers aimed at grabbing a lot of new-to-Sun business. That's what the Galaxy server it just announced is for. But this is a good upgrade. |
This isn't even really an open-source issue, although it's received a lot of publicity in that context. |
Those do not appear to be cherry-picked numbers of some particular benchmark on a blue moon with a tailwind blowing. |
When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end. |
With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, there would not be an Itanium today. |
You don't want to see things slip, but at the end of the day, if Montecito gets delivered per this revised schedule and the performance increase is in the range of what Intel has talked about [a two-times increase], it will still give [OEMs like HP] a competitive high-end processor offering. |
You have to do a lot of running just to stay in place in this business. |