Re: New RDBMS implementation

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:25:42 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.07.12.25.42.370358@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Fri, 07 May 2004 03:12:05 -0700, David Svensson escreveu:

> you seem to have read too much Itanium anit-hype.

Perhaps.

> Itanium is not a mainstream CPU

Since when Wintel can deal with not being 'mainstream'?

> and does beat UltraSparc easily and beat PowerPC in atleast
> 4-CPU configurations in database performance. This is from personal
> experience.

Did you compare systems of similar prices and generations?
Didn't Intel subsidise Itanium heavily?

> Sure Opteron is great, but Itanium is also great.

But Opteron is AMD's bet-the-farm, mainstream processors.

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