Trent Shipley wrote:
> 
> I'm not certain the "only runs on Intel" is much of a distinction.  As far as
> I know Itanium will be the only chip in its league.
> 
> Cost of development and building a fab is getting just to high for there to
> be more than one producer.  IBM, HP, and Compaq are getting out of the CPU
> biz.  Motorolla probably will too.  Don't know about SUN.

Sun has been outsourcing a good chunk of SPARC manufacturing to
Fujitsu for years.  Funny, since Fujitsu also builds and markets
SPARC-based workstations.



> As for having to upgrade every three years, aren't you the one who says the
> cost of hardware and the OS is "irrelevant"?

Yes, I am, but not everyone believes me.


George