Hello Friends:

We just posted our weekly podcast on the NewsWire's free blog site 
<http://3000newswire.com/blog> with our comments and reporting on 
PA-RISC versus Itanium.

HP says its go-forward platform is Itanium, but three fourths of the 
Business Critical server revenues are still related to PA-RISC. 
Itanium is much faster than most PA-RISC servers you've encountered, 
unless you have the latest generations of the PA-RISC architecture.

But this isn't a matter of speed for the 3000 site so much as a 
matter of Integrity. HP is pushing its Itanium Integrity servers as 
the primary vendor to be using the chip. It's a lot like the PA-RISC 
days of yore, when HP wanted other companies to adopt PA-RISC and 
broaden market share. Adopting Integrity/Itanium is a vote of faith 
in HP's futures.

On the other hand, if you have HP-UX as your primary migration 
objective, the choice should be a lot simpler. UX just doesn't have 
any other processor platform extending into the future. The last 
PA-RISC generation is already off the boards and onto the fab lines.

Have a listen to our podcast and let us hear from you about your 
Itanium adoption. Post a comment out on the blog and be heard.
-- 

Ron Seybold, Editor In Chief
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