Larry,
Wall Street goes for the most reliable machines that money can buy for their main transaction processors. These include System 390, Tandem no-downs and HP's. They, of course, use PC's and workstations for front-ends, but it's mostly still big iron for the most critical applications.
When NT 5.0 gets here, it will be tested by the big boys for performance, scalability, reliability, etc. Who knows, maybe Merced is out by then. That's when it's really going to be fun.
BTW, anyone that thinks that a quad 200 MHz Pentium Pro, 1 MB cache (per Ppro) is not a server has their head in the sand. And oh, by the way, if that is not enough, you can cluster the quads to other quads to other quads ad nauseum.
Tony |
