@Keba

Kebabbert, I was not agreeing with you, I was only being ironic.

Only you thinks that Niagara performs well against high-end processors.

But, the market speaks for itself.

Die slowly with Sun

Cheers...

@Matt / @Keba

Matt, I was referring to the available x86 Nehalem (5500 series) that is a dual processor architecture (see http://www.intel.com/Assets/en_US/PDF/prodbrief/xeon-5500.pdf and learn more about it).

Keba, I will not discuss this point with you anymore... You are correct, POWER6 cores are slow, that's why T2 machines are real blockbusters and Sun is making a lot of money from it. Besides that, Sun employees are really happy and there are no job cuts at this company. and the market really enjoys Sun servers roadmap with no delays or cancels. What a great company to invest your IT money on!

@AC re: Drooling Matty

"Nothing else. Niagara and SPARC64 seem to have regular updates, and on time, unlike Power and Itanium."

Regular updates unlike POWER? Gimme a break...

POWER5, 5+, 6, 6+ what was that about? IBM released POWER4 dual core 1.1 and 1.3 GHz back in 2001 and current line is 5.0 GHz on POWER6 is that not regular update for you? You serious???

ROCK (Regatta on a chip killer) was targeted at POWER4 Regatta machines that was like 8 years ago... come on... wake up dude...

And regarding Itanium yes, they upgraded from 1.1 to 1.66 GHz in the last few years, and with Tukwila delayed again, they don't have regular updates lately

Watch the industry more carefully before posting...

Cheers!

Paris: 'cause she also does like the POWER

Well, where's Matt?

Itanium is dead. Nehalem EX will outperform at half price.

Pls, Matt comments...