From: hippy at domain oceanfree.net
Date: Tue 29 May 2001 - 23:41:21 IST
just reading the news and found below,
hope soom one gets some thing form it.
Intel took its long-awaited step into the 64-bit universe, with its launch of the Itanium platform, trailed by announcements that major server vendors will ship Itanium-based systems this summer.
HP co-invented the platform with Intel.
just reading the news and found .
hope soom one gets some thing form it.
The company says it would ship the first Itanium chips to manufacturing Tuesday.
While Intel had let the launch date and details leak earlier, the company and OEM partners began the process of positioning Itanium as only a beginning, not an end, after years of development.
However, Intel and major OEM vendors all concede that the IA-64 platform will not vault into major volume until next year's expected release of the McKinley processor, Itanium's successor. Early Itanium releases are being geared toward early adopters, and other solution providers that need to port their own technology to the new, Intel-based 64-bit architecture
"It depends on [customer] applications and what they're going to use it for," he says. "If your applications don't take advantage of 64-bit, you won't see an advantage."
Hadzis says his business on HP's 32-bit NetServer line is "going really well," and suggested he'll be content to focus on that end for the foreseeable future.
For its part, IBM said it will offer a workstation and four-way server on the Itanium platform. However, the computer maker doesn't plan to offer a 16-way server offering until McKinley is released.
"You'll see us come out with a much more scalable and higher end platform with that generation of processor," says Jay Bretzmann, manager of product marketing for IBM's eServer xSeries.
The four-way xSeries 380, which will be priced at about $20,000 on a Linux-based system, is slated for availability on June 29, Bretzmann says.
Meanwhile, Compaq plans to ship Itanium-based
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Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2766045,00.html
J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers, one of the first companies
to offer hacker insurance, has begun charging clients 5 percent
to 15 percent more if they use Microsoft's Windows NT software
in their Internet operations.
The company, consisting of only eight employees, is being closely
watched by many of the larger insurance companies. It is believed
that other insurers will follow Wurzler's lead.
Dataquest, a market research company, released the results of
a survey that indicates the U.S. market for Unix servers has
dropped by about 2 percent.
Despite this Sun and Dell have managed double-digit growth
while IBM sales remained static and Hewlett-Packard and
Compaq saw double-digit drops in growth. It is thought Dell's
growth is primarily credited to Linux.
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