Re: The Register and Gartner on Itanium sales

Dave Froble wrote:
FredK wrote:
I love the spin. HP's transition from PA-RISC to Itanium is gloom & doom,
and Sparc continuing to drown in red ink is cause for celibration?

Income -$797 million, net profit margin -5.89%. 5 year sales growth -6.5%.
They've lost about $5 billion over the last 5 years and lept back up from a
$107 million dollar loss last year to $864 million. If they increase sales
any faster they might have to file chapter 11. AMD-64 hasn't saved the
sinking Sparc yet.

What does this have to do with the itanic and VMS?

Whatever Sun does, good or bad, has no bearing on what VMS does, good or
bad. I personally don't give a damn about Sun. Irrelevant!


It's irrelevant if you fail to make the connection between competiton
in the Enterprise server marketplace (like Sun), the health of that
market, and OpenVMS.

And, ignore the fact that EM64T and AMD64 servers are eating into that
market, and Sun is addressing that fact.

And, if you ignore the fact that OpenVMS is focused primarily on the
Enterprise, ignoring the EM64T and AMD64 growing capabilities and
cost-performance advantage, while Sun is embracing that change.

Then it's irrelevant.

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