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To: pgerassi who wrote (76442)	4/3/2002 11:38:57 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Pete, Why do those in the know pull their Intel servers and replaced them with Athlon servers? Because they were faster, cheaper and more reliable. Cheaper? yes, faster?, I think so, more reliable? they still need more track record, so let's not jump ahead of ourselves. As far as clusters of 2 way vs. 4+ way, there are some problems that are better addressed by a multi CPU computer rather than a cluster of 1 or 2 way, mainly databases. So there is room in the market for them. But at the speed of performance increases of CPUs, a 1 or 2 way server is satisfactory for greater and greater percentage of problems, leaving the real need for >2 systems ever shrinking need. Note that I said real. There was a research done (I wish I saved the link) about what people buy vs. what they need in servers, and the result was that people vasty overestimated the real need with their hardware purchases. They bought far more powerful servers than they needed, and they vastly overspent compared to what they needed to spend. The study was done about 6 to 12 months ago, and still during the .com server buying feeding frenzy. Joe

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