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To: Paul Engel who wrote (71909)	9/14/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) of 1572699

Re: WHAT SMP motherboards... Paul, you don't always need an SMP motherboard for a server. Many application server and database licenses are per CPU, and the performance scaling of even the best SMP systems is such that you are usually better off with a cluster of servers, each with their own disk and memory channels - if you are paying hefty license fees on a per cpu basis. Manageability is better with fewer multiprocessor servers, but reliability goes down since there are fewer points of failure. There is definitely a market for the most powerful possible, single processor X86 systems - an extremely lucrative, if small volume, market that used to belong to Intel - who will it belong to from now on? Dan

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