Alpha Lives! But Who Will Market It?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 12, 2003 @03:14PM from the return-from-the-dead dept.

chriton writes "The Inquirer is running articles about HP's and new "Marvel" server which will arrive Tuesday, Jan 14th and the expectation that HP will try to keep it's performance quiet. Not because it's bad like Itanic I, but because it's too good! It's built on Alpha EV78 processors connected by a switched fabric and promises blazing performance. "Marvel has, apparently some rollickingly good benchmarks that HP wants to underplay, just in case people start comparing the performance of the Alpha Marvel architecture with the Itanium 2 it also sells, and perhaps more importantly, the SuperDome machines." Alpha offers the kind of choice and competition the processor market will sorely miss when it goes. The FTC was sleeping when they allowed HP to acquire it."

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The FTC is not a technical group. by ProtonMotiveForce · 2003-01-12 15:48 · Score: 0, Flamebait

They don't make technical decisions regarding the merits of a platform. Quit making inane, clueless comments implying that the FTC would have had some reason to prevent the merger because of the Alpha.
Re: Limited software for Alpha by ctr2sprt · 2003-01-12 17:05 · Score: 2, Flamebait

And Itanium has much greater vendor support. Not saying much, since Alpha has only slightly more vendor support than OS/2.