Easy answer to that - because Intel (and the drive-by/airline magazine media) says it can...
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe Heard that one before from various vendors HP, Sun, DEC, STK (before they were Oracle/SUN). No one has yet delivered. What makes anyone think Intel can pull it off, where HP, Sun, STK... couldn't <snip> from above: Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, is gunning for the mission-critical server space with the launch of the new Xeon 6500/7500 processor lines. It's a bid that will see it taking on mainframes and RISC, but the company says that its newest offerings have the goods. </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
