The news out of Sun on the Niagara product is surprisingly weak. Based on Sun's early descriptions, the Niagara architecture appears to be targeting a niche (market).
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With the phenomenal market growth of Power and [the Power5 processor], we have a lot of interested parties. It's only been discussions, but they are interested in the market performance of Power and AIX.
Instead of a big-bang release, what we're trying to do is give customers access to the code early.
If (software companies) stand to gain additional business, and if customers are feeling a pain that the solution addresses, then the ecosystem occurs naturally. If the market doesn't really want the stack, it could cost about $50 million to $100 million a year.
Nobody has anything that comes even close to touching the p5 595.
If you took us out of the Unix market you'd actually see a shrinking Unix market, or flat, as Gartner calls it.
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