On 31 Mar 2010 10:19:25 -0700, allan.stal...@kbm1.com (Staller, Allan) wrote:
>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. For various values of "pull it off", other manufacturers *have* succeeded. There are companies running their old "mission critical" mainframe applications on Suns. Capabilities go up for IBM and for its competing hardware, and "good enough" varies considerably for different customers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
