Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
base boost company given niagara speed sun systems
Sun has given a speed boost to its installed base as the company focuses on x64 systems and the forthcoming Niagara processor,
adopt core either slower stick
Enterprises must either adopt multi core or stick with slower chips.
background company deal engineers experience good local looks management obviously skills systems terms type useful
It's a local company with some useful code, engineers who obviously have skills and background and experience in the type of systems management that HP has. We don't know the terms of the deal, but it probably was not all that expensive. It looks to be a good deal for HP.
achievement alliance billions hard major rest solutions spent
It's hard to see the Itanium Solutions Alliance accomplishing anything major that the billions already spent by HP, Intel, and the rest haven't. You don't see an x86 Solutions Alliance.
comparable performance
They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.
clear pervasive visible
It's still not clear how visible that will be. I don't think it will be pervasive in 2006.
decided forward move older path product promoting pull relatively suddenly
It's not like Dell had been making investments in Itanium and suddenly decided it wasn't going to do that and pull back its support. It had a relatively older product it wasn't promoting at all, and it really doesn't have a near-term path where it could move forward if it wanted to.
costs reducing security
This is about reducing administrative costs more than about security.
apple bigger higher liked notebook percentage power sell
This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel's roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.
complete desktop edge focused gains gives higher intel level mobile notebooks since technology
AMD has made some gains in mobile technology, but has been only marginally successful. There is a higher level of integration with notebooks than with desktop PCs, which gives Intel an edge since they are focused on a complete mobile platform.
above competition head nice opportunity possible shoulders
It's probably not possible to be head and shoulders above the competition in the x86 space. There just isn't that much opportunity for being compellingly different. That said, they're nice boxes.
change computer makers sort type upgrade
doesn't fundamentally change UltraSparc and Sun's positioning in any way. It's the type of incremental upgrade that computer makers sort of have to deliver.
announced galaxy generation good grabbing
This isn't a new generation of servers aimed at grabbing a lot of new-to-Sun business. That's what the Galaxy server it just announced is for. But this is a good upgrade.
although publicity received
This isn't even really an open-source issue, although it's received a lot of publicity in that context.