Re:before everyone starts shouting at once... (Score 1)

I can't think of anyone, or any organisation that doesn't care about price-performance. I positive that if a solution that offered the same performance came around at 1/3 the cost, you'd be willing to take the cheaper of the two. And if you're serious about getting it done now, just buy 3 times the stuff.

I think the Itanium line is interesting, and provides decent performance, but the cost, heat and energy consumptions make it a bear to work with.

i'd be interested in seeing how much they paid for each one of those servers and compare it to Big Mac. You might very well be able to buy 2 big mac's for the price their monster. Which for those ppl counting, would be twice the performance.