Re: Development of Oracle Power Objects for OS/2 stopped!!! E-Mail Campaign!!!

In message <4jc23m$24mk_at_news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> - lclark_at_ibm.net writes:

:>As I understand it, the Power PC chip costs twice as a P6 to manufacture

Remember there are economies of scale to consider.

:>and WARP performance is about the same on both. Also, the AIX servers

Beyond my knowledge base. I have no empirical data to offer to confirm or refute. Anyone care to step in?

:>are also going to have a Intel version. What is the point of developing a
:>version on a more expensive hardware base with no performance advantages

It's already been developed so it's a moot point.

:>when it can do the same on the Intel base. Win95 is not and never will be
:>on anything but the Intel base, and NT is a resource hog waiting for the
:>hardware to mask it.

Wholehearted agreement.

I think (forgive me, John, if I'm wrong) John Soyring stated in this news group that a market analysis indicated a market of 25,000 units for OS/24PPC for 1996. Hardly a profitable niche. They decided to pour resources into the Intel OS/2 code instead. That said, it is possible they may reconsider and assign resources to PPC development in 1996. Or, they may assign those resources in 1997.

Or they might just pull the product. I have no idea what they're going to do. I'm sure they'll make a decision based on sound business principles, though.

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