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To: TechMkt who wrote (145611)	10/22/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

Fez - The reporter got it wrong - Active PCI has nothing to do with hot-swapping fans, which DELL already supports, or hot-swapping memory, which no Intel architecture currently supports. It has to do with hot-swapping PCI cards, as the name suggests. But this is not an example of DELL and IBM getting closer. There are two places you can go to get this technology - CPQ, which had the first implementation, and IBM. DELL is unlikely to go to CPQ, I would think. This looks like a straight license purchase. DELL needs to bring its servers up to the engineering standard set by CPQ and IBM, who have been fielding this technology for nearly 2 years, if they want to continue their enterprise server growth.