Re: New RDBMS implementation
Date: 7 May 2004 03:12:05 -0700
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Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.05.06.13.13.14.742614_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>...
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> You've been reading too much press releases. 64 bits have
> been around for a decade. MS had MS WNT for the Alpha and killed it
> before enabling 64 bits in it. MS waited until now to have 64 bits
> products again so they could do it with no porting at all. That is
> the real reason why Opteron is going to kill Itanium, and why inferior
> Itanium is being hyped over UltraSPARC or PowerPC.
And you seem to have read too much Itanium anit-hype. Itanium is not a mainstream CPU and does beat UltraSparc easily and beat PowerPC in atleast 4-CPU configurations in database performance. This is from personal experience.
Sure Opteron is great, but Itanium is also great. Received on Fri May 07 2004 - 12:12:05 CEST