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To: paul who wrote (11723)	11/17/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: Bala Vasireddi	of 64865

Your comment about Sequent being a hand-crafted machine is right on! I worked at Sun Microsystems in my previous job (until about a year ago) as a Sales Engineer. I know of one customer who used a Sequent for running some business apps. There were times where Sequent had upto 25 engineers at this customer's site to service/tune/maintain this machine (which was a Sequent cluster). These beasts require a lot of custom tuning, application/workload partitioning, service etc etc. This kind of product limits the numbers of customers Sequent can sell and support. Sun with its SMP scalability alone i.e E10000 (w/ 64 CPUs) and E6000 upto (24-30 CPUs) will continue to put a lot of pressure on the likes of Sequent from a price/performance and cost-of-ownership perspective. -Bala

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