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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (5377)	12/10/1998 5:18:00 AM
From: Edward Smyth	Read Replies (1) of 14451

Thomas A Watson wrote: >1500 for samba, How many thousands of dollars of sgi hardware >does it take to outperform 1500 dollars of intel box running >samba for ZERO??? Depends upon what you want to run. Sure there are lots of things which will run as fast on a cheap PC as on a much more expensive SGI. The SGI will win on larger, more demanding applications. Especially those requiring 64-bit address space and huge I/O. Large database server accessed by hundreds of PC users for example. There is nothing to stop SGI owners getting samba for free. They now have the option of buying an optimized version, and getting support, which IIRC is what the 1500 is for. >OH this is an email I sent to a dude I know at xig. > >Using about a 400 dollar intel box with 500 for the display. >Assume 300 for the xig opengl and 180 for the video card. >.... In our department we are moving more and more to Linux for workstations (replacing HPs mostly). We don't do much graphics work so we don't need the extra power of more expensive Unix workstations. Some Linux boxes are used for number-crunching as well, but mostly for the smaller jobs. Large jobs use various servers and supercomputers (T3E, Origin 2000, SP2 etc). My point is that, IMHO, Linux doesn't have to be a threat to SGI. On the contrary, Linux and IRIX fit very well together, much better than NT and IRIX. It is good to see SGI taking advantage of open-source software to improve their systems. I am hoping that they will continue this process to include Linux on the Visual Workstations. Ed

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