Oh Boy: I am up at a crazy hour working and I just browsed through Information Week Online. DELL hasn't been fooling around either. <gg>
They continue to ramp up in the server field. Here is the latest announcement:
Wednesday, September 23, 1998
Dell To Roll Out Departmental Server
Dell Computer on Monday will roll out a two-way server aimed at enterprise departments and small and medium-sized businesses.
The company, trailing only Compaq in the U.S. server market, is shipping the PowerEdge 4300, which will occupy the middle of the company's PowerEdge server family, between the workgroup-level 2300 and high-end 6300. It replaces the PowerEdge 4200, and comes with twice the internal storage.
PowerEdge 4300 includes up to two Pentium II chips, 1 Gbyte RAM, and 126 Gbytes of hard disk. It will be upgradeable to four processors. With a single 350-MHz processor and 128 Mbytes of memory, the machine will start at $4,410; with two 400-MHz chips and 256 Mbytes of memory, it will start at $6,310; and with two 450-MHz chips and 1 Gbyte memory, it will start at $11,172.
The server can be used as a separate tower or grouped together, six in a rack. The PowerEdge 4300 will support Microsoft's Cluster Server software in 30 days, which, the company says, will help branch offices with limited support capabilities to keep their systems online.
--Jeff Sweat (InformationWeek) |
