Re: that the era of proprietary and RISC/Unix computing is over.

if it is, that would be based on economics only, not on quality of chip design. I noticed that even with cherry picked numbers, the performance was pretty close on "hyper expensive" chip, and that was before I saw the comment with the performance comparison that puts the Intel chip below the Power chip. So yes, they might win on a strict equipment cost basis, but a TCO comparison? Not so sure.