Terry,

So will anything built with Itanic/McKinley/etc.... ever be 'high
performance'?

If you have your doubts, maybe you should reconsider the name change to be
something along the lines of "Shannon Knows Commodity Platforms with Various
Operating Systems".  www.skcpwvos.com

I know it's a mouthful, but it seems to be where the industry is heading so
you'll truly be on the leading edge of naming for all time.

Besides, it'll save on additional domain registration and trademark fees.
:-)




"Terry C. Shannon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:L6Tz8.60193$%s3.23734634@typhoon.ne.ipsvc.net...
> Another year, another name change. We at Shannon Knows DEC, Shannon Knows
> Distributed Enterprise Computing, Shannon Knows Compaq, and now Shannon
> Knows HPC are getting used to the good old name game. And we hope that you
> Constant Readers will take the latest name change in stride. Here's the
> deal: Shannon Knows Compaq has withstood the rigors of two name changes
plus
> the economic angst of the thermonuclear winter incited by a wholesale
> dot-com bombing. Acting on the news yesterday that the Delaware Chancery
> Court has given Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq a go-ahead, SKC
has
> changed its name to Shannon Knows High Performance Computing. HP, of
course,
> can be construed as High Performance or Hewlett-Packard, which,
> post-acquisition, will be Numero Uno in the High Performance Computing
> arena. In the interest of brevity-plus a desire to coin a new five-letter
> acronym-we'll now operate under the SKHPC name. Extended "dance version"
> five-letter acronym aside, we'll continue to provide the same coverage
we've
> been dishing out for the last nine years, plus even more. And for those of
> you who wonder why we didn't opt for Shannon Knows HPS, it turns out that
> HPS is the acronym for Hewlett Packard Services! Thanks to a senior Compaq
> manager for pointing out this potential gaffe to us!
>
> --
> Terry C. Shannon
> Consultant and Publisher
> Shannon Knows HPC
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>
>

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