Re: IBM managers are thieves!
Or maybe you got it backwards, and the IBM hardware is not that good as you imagine? For instance, you talk about the CELL processor. Well, you need 13 (thirteen) CELLs at 3.2GHz to match one single SPARC T2+ at 1.6GHz in string pattern matching. The CELL cpu used heavy optimizations (loop unrolling, etc) and the SPARC cpu implemented a school book algorithm in C, and still it was much much faster.
Maybe that is the reason nobody uses CELL today, and it got killed off? I mean, why kill a success? You only can failures, not successes. But due to heavy marketing people believed CELL was fast. Well, it wasnt.
For the IBM POWER6 cpu, you need fourteen (14) cpus at 4.7GHz to match four SPARC T2+ cpus in official SIEBEL v8 benchmarks, just read it. Maybe the POWER6 was not that good either.
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