Quote #1

“64-bit systems have been around for a while. I think the transition for pervasive 64-bit computing is going to take some time. I think the server side of the market is well familiar with this technology, well familiar with the promises that 64-bit brings to the market. I think the trick is on a desktop, in that segment of the market, this is going to be a big change for them. These are going to be systems that are vastly more powerful than they are used to. So there will be some new applications, new capabilities. So it will certainly spur some new usage models.”

Quote #2

“I think the biggest hurdle is just in understanding it, and understanding where the play is. Until recently, it's been sort of an either/or solution, that you do 32 or that you do 64, and that there wasn't the ability to mix and match software from one environment to the other. So I think that the biggest transition I'm looking at is that training the market that, in fact, you can have it both ways. You can have this technology, you can run all of this stuff through life exactly as you've been doing it before, only faster; or you can transition to this new life where you are getting new generation software and new generation hardware.”

Quote #3

”I think the first [markets/areas that will adopt 64-bit quickly] will be in the high- performance computing clusters. This is an environment that needs lots and lots of systems that are capable of very high computational levels, including things like modeling, rendering, liquid models, solid models, all that stuff. Second, obviously the database model. The database industry is always memory intensive. It's always computational intensive. And that's another area where price performance really rules the selection of process. So I think those are the first two that I think would really be obvious. After that, we are really talking about specific line of business applications, and large application vendors moving over.”