Re: POWER6 now or later? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?
From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:23:20 -0400
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On 9/5/07, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That's just Steve. Any manufacturer will focus their efforts on where the
most demand is. The SMB market is not at that point yet.

it is the marketplace. why spend $20K today for a quad core p5+
running at 2Ghz when any day now the new model will run at 4Ghz and
probably cost less?

the system p actually makes less now that the Intel servers are so
fast. as great as the low and mid range system p is compared to
comparable priced system i, system x or HP servers are likely just as
fast and lower priced.

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