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"More recent decisions at Microsoft also reinforce Dell's direction. A coming version of Windows Server 2003 called R2 is geared for smaller servers and won't support Itanium, and the next Windows server operating system, code-named Longhorn server, will only be geared for high-end server tasks, Microsoft said this month."

Back in the day, Compac was Microsoft. Then HP purchased Compac. Now Dell is Microsoft. Lets get real here.

Microsoft and Del's adversion to supporting Itanium is directly related the browser war and antitrust case stemming from that war. Microsoft would prefer Java - the great threat from the jihad waged against Netscape - with its write-once-run-anywhere promis, to whither.

With multi-core hardware such as Itanium, Java - especially the much lobbied against applets - really starts to shine. Applets are easially threaded. Hence an Applet in each tab of a browser or an Applet in each of multiple browsers will take advantage of the multicore hardware. Each applet will be in its own thread(s).

Simple example. One Firefox browser, a calculator applet in tab one, a spread sheet applet in tab two, an expert system in tab three and a database search engine in tab four = one hell of a decision support system. Even the Ballmer loving stock advisor Kramer is going to want one. Now add voice recognition, video, and text-to-speach.

Dell and Microsoft are toast unless they get on board with multicore. Itanium, isn't just about virtualizaton. It is about threading, and with that a paradox shift for developers. R1 as in you and I are one, was the term coined by DEC to describe an expert system that was used to configer computer equipment. R2 is an offence against Lucus as in R2D2 where are you?

But there is more. Xeon and Itanium would not be overshadowing Microsoft and Del (does anyone believe Allchin's failure with Vista isn't directly connected) if not for more than multithreading and virtualization.

Its about security. Intel was unable to get Microsoft on board with security at the OS level. This wasn't a big deal in Open Source and hence Linux flavors are secure. But Microsoft required binary patches to its operating system to catch faults to hardware which could result in wiping out a hard drive. I can only imagine the finger pointing but the net result is that Intel has to gain security at the hardware level, since Microsoft makes it so difficult at the OS level, and it is easier to do that with new chips. There is also the power consumption issue.

Why is it that the world had HP palmtop computers that could run months on AA bateries before WinCE but todays technology requires nuclear power plants:>)? The fact is that Moores law can not be sustained without multicore or better power sources. We have come to expect a doubling of processing power every 18 months. Del/Microsoft can not give us that unless they learn to follow.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 04/10/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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