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To: Prognosticator who wrote (21818)	10/26/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Prog, it is more a threat to Sun - as I think you realized as you typed then tried to make it a non-issue by claiming the 64 bit advantage. The current 32 bit intel chips are beating sparc chips on SPECint, and I think are close or better on FP and they are way way cheaper. Soon you'll be able to get an 8-way x86 config for under 20K. Also scalability is there for Linux and NT on 4-8 way now. As a result the 4-8 way x86 boxes will probably hurt proprietary iron vendors more ; running Linux or NT. NT is still in it's infancy in the server market but gaining market share every quarter - n-way x86 will only fuel this growth ... all only IMHO. Cheers James

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