On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 18:43:33 +0800, Roger Filomeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Im also looking at using itanium series, anyone have experience?
You sure you want to go that route? Freaking expensive lot aside from having its own set of issues. You can't run your existing 32 bit applications without incurring a very heavy speed penalty (if you can even make them run at all - best luck is go all native in this as IA64 instruction set is yet another instruction set architecture incompatible with IA32). If you have that budget you might as well get better-engineered chips with machines using Power5 or UltraSPARC IV cores :) [the Z-series mainframes would be overkill anyway] If you have existing Intel-32bit applications, you can still opt for the Athlon-MP (they're quite good too, and cheaper than Intel) or Xeon as these are cheap. Or go AMD64 (Opteron or Intel's Nocona Xeon). <bias ahead>The Opteron is cheaper and scales better though when you add more memory compared to the Nocona</bias ahead> -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
