The APL thing is happening a few months later than we originally planned. You can expect low end four- and eight-way systems will probably happen sooner. There's still a chance that will happen before the end of the year. High-end 16-, 32- and 64-way systems probably will happen in the early part of next year.

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SPARC for some time has not been highly regarded for various reasons. We adopted a completely different design philosophy.

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We are executing very well on the Niagara program. We would really like to show all the evidence we have, not just some virtual benchmarks.

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Niagara is not expected to overlap with OPL, but Rock will. Rock comes out in 2008, but the APL agreement expires in 2008.

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We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

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All businesses are moving toward more Internet-based [work] and this type of workload.

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You can expect both of those to tape out within this year. When we tape out, we expect a smooth ride.

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We're in a new cycle of innovation for SPARC that delivers incredible performance gains, ... Scalable high performance processing, combined with the same power consumption, footprint and price as previous generations, make the new Sun Fire servers the ideal platform for server consolidation.

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