PowerHouse in the next 3 years?

[Edis, Robert]

I agree, the Itanium IS an issue.  With HP-UX, True64, OpenVMS and MS
Windows NT being ported to this processor it is definitely the way servers
will go.  Other processor technologies will fall by the wayside due to
economics over the next few years.  Alpha has/is being merged into the
Itanium, the SPARC is getting long-in-the-tooth and I think IBM will use the
Itanium in preference to developing a new 64bit chip of its own.  The only
possible contender will be AMD's Sledgehammer which has the advantage of
running 32bit apps in native mode as well as 64bit apps.  The Itanium runs
32bit apps in emulation mode I believe and therefore such apps run slower on
Itanium than on a 32bit CPU.

Blue

-----Original Message-----
From: Hans-Ole Kaae, ScanConsult [mailto:hok@scanconsult.dk]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 2:21 AM
To: Berry, Robert
Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PowerHouse in the next 3 years?


Hi,

I will just point one thing out. The Itanium thing.

I don't know how HP marketing is going on in US/Canada - but here in 
Europe, Itanium 2 *is* around - alive, well and kicking.

If you were to order an upgrade of your HP-UX PA-RISC box today - you 
would probably go for Itanium - if all your 3. party software does 
support it, that is.

One major issue, based on our own experience: You get more power for 
less money - and that's of course difficult to ignore. We requested 2 
offers from HP - and Itanium was cheaper than PA-RISC - so for the same 
money we would get more power out of the box.

I don't now if this is true for the whole range of HP-boxes - but if it 
is, shouldn't Cognos support for Itanium be available today?

Itanium is more than one thing. PowerHouse for Unix running on Itanium 
2 with HP-UX 11i is our issue - and shouldn't be extremely difficult to 
port, I guess...

/With kind regards Hans


On 7 May 2003 at 10:41, Berry, Robert wrote:

> 
> People of the board
> Free PowerHouse Web....
> If PHWeb were included with the next release (8.4) along with AXiant do
> you believe that your applications would be better served???? Do you see
> the potential for migrating existing applications to the web???? to
> Unix???? Would IT directors embrace this technology??? Do you think that
> there is a need for PH Linux??? Do you need Itanium support??? Are you
> prepared to show cost savings, manhour reductions, increased
> productivity etc etc ?? If so .........please reply..... Bob
> -----Original Message----- From: Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX
> [mailto:Harold.A.Johnson@gems1.gov.bc.ca] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003
> 6:49 PM To: 'Darren Reely' Cc: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu Subject: RE:
> PowerHouse in the next 3 years?
> 
... snip
Mange hilsner / With kind regards

Hans-Ole

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