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Alpha Lives! But Who Will Market It?
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."
I will personally market it, Hemos.
Linux Lives! But Who Will Market It?
OK, granted, Linux is free, but it hasn't had a lot of direct mainstream publicity. A lot of stuff that's been heard about Linux has been through the Linux community itself, and the media (notoriety et al), not through marketing. I believe that administrators who are sufficiently educated will help bring this to the market, just as OS afficionados have helped to bring Linux to the market. Alpha has a loyal following, much like Linux, and while marketing will help the Alpha, without it doesn't mean that the Alpha won't gain more foothold in the server market.
Hmm... So, what do animals of each species have to pay half a million bucks to get their genome imprinted on a limited edition cd-r? Hmm, they should advertise that in the rainforest...
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The article above is trying to save the Alpha processor.
While this page is trying to save Alpha Flight.
We obviously need to get Wolvie to do a guest appearance at HP. That will stir things up for sure.
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