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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7342)1/27/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: paul  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Thomas - Starfires start at a more reasonable price around $500,000 - most are sold with less than the 64 processors which is the max but customers are paying for the headroom. They have a unique feature of partititioning the machine so that it can act like 2 or more servers. So one can back up the other as a fault tolerant system or half the machine can be used for OLTP applications and the other half as a data warehouse - pretty neat huh? This feature is common on Mainframes but a first for Unix, thats why Starfires are positioned as Mainframe killers.

Also the cost is not that expenseive when you consider that a single UE6000 can run much more applications and users than hundreds of NT boxes - the administration costs are much cheaper alone. I think there is an example of a single UE6000 running the same # of mail users as 300 NT boxes and MS Exchange.
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