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To: Scumbria who wrote (42332)	11/28/1998 12:28:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) of 1572927

Mainframes can be price at very steep increases for very small change in speed. A $5,000,000 mainframe (includinging peripherals) may be price $500,000 higher if the speed is 10% higher since in can do 10% more work. Comparisons with the Xeon must include using the value of multiple parallel CPUs and possibilities for clustered applications. It is not ignorance on the part of the corporate buyer, but little choice if he wants the highest performance through the service life of the hardware and software. If you run Oracle software that costs $30,000 on your server you can justify $2000 (and higher) cpu prices.

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