Intel chips run too damn hot. If you look at performance gains over the past few years, they've come from putting more transistors on a die and pumping up the clock rate. Thermodynamics has caught up with us.

Dell could figure out a way to sell Itanium, but they sell commodity stuff. It really doesn't fit their business.

Anyone in this market needs to be careful. The Internet is a place where choices change quickly. UPS has a good lead, but it can't take it for granted.

We haven't seen a lot of success in the high-end multi-CPU systems, so I'm not sure having another one is going to automatically sell.

We're seeing a good chunk of our customer base upgrade to 2005 to take advantage of query and analysis performance on the Web.

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