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To: paul who wrote (21540)	10/21/1999 10:27:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Paul, PC RAS is good enough. I don't need to pop CPU's into my running box nor care that I need an occasional reboot. Just look at EBAY - they shutdown their systems for a few hours a week at least to do maintenance - that 2-4% downtime right there. Let's not count the recent 24 hour hits they've had due to a reported combination of hardware/software issues. I say that the best investment a company can make is building an application(s) that are distributed. This means I can plug in a node and my application scales (maybe not linearly but it does scale), and I have some more fault tolerance. If one node goes down my business still runs because I have N other nodes "taking care of business". Therefore, give me a room full of cheaper yet just as reliable X86 iron and make your app distributed. Best RAS at the best price IMHO. Cheers James