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To: Dale J. who wrote (20431)	9/29/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, if that's it, you need to say a LOT more. In my book, none of those are reasons SUNW is overvalued. Windows 2000 is late and will be as unreliable and hard to administer as its predecessors. Intel 8 way servers have problems, as just recently reported. Y2K will have less effect than a hurricane. And it won't single out SUNW. If there's an October correction, it will be forgotten by the new year. And it won't single out SUNW. Sun will be around long after Ballmer is forgotten. JMHO, of course.

To: Dale J. who wrote (20431)	9/30/1999 2:27:00 AM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Intels 8 way servers. dailynews.yahoo.com I find it particularly disturbing that the problem occurs with 512KB cache, but not with 2MB cache. I would bet that the problem also occurs on the 2MB cache versions, but no one has stressed one long or hard enough yet. The confidence with which they can say that the problem does not occur on the 2MB cache system, but ``We expect to have the root cause and solution within the next few weeks,' tells me they don't have a clue what is causing it. And I'm not surprised: multi-processor systems are tremendously difficult to debug. Sun has been delivering them for years, and to my knowledge does not have these kinds of problems because they know what they're doing, and they control both the hardware and software. I wonder if Solaris 7 crashes to the same blue-screen of death on the same hardware. (For the less technically minded, I'm blaming Microsoft here). P.