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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (26103)	1/11/2000 2:16:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (3) of 64865

Is this the same press release? biz.yahoo.com If so, I notice a few things. First, they're doing this to replace a farm of 60+ Compaq servers. That recognizes the high TCO of the PC paradigm, and isn't a net gain for the Wintel world. Second, they're moving to "thin client" computing, which is what we've been saying is the future. Third, it's configured not as a 32-way server, but as 6 server nodes with "in-the-box" clustering. Presumably that's because Win2000 can't scale to 32 processors. 6-way Wintel machines have been available for some time, so other than putting half a dozen of them in one box and clustering them (I wonder how well _that_ will work), this can hardly be considered innovative. Fourth, they're only handling 2,000 users -- that's hardly a big load by today's standards. Still, I suppose it's an excuse to issue a press release. JMHO.

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