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To: Haim Barad who wrote (92592)	11/16/1999 2:03:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Respond to of 186894

Haim - You're going to confuse Jim with facts. He doesn't like that. Regards, Burt

To: Haim Barad who wrote (92592)	11/16/1999 2:09:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Haim, another Unisys demo at Comdex using Xeon platforms, this time 20 of them. The storage they selected for the complex is EMC, of course. Networking, Cisco, who else? Unisys also mentions using Itanium next year. zdnet.com ============================================================ Unisys promotes Win 2000 scalability By John S. Mccright, PC Week Online November 15, 1999 5:38 PM ET LAS VEGAS -- Scalability for e-commerce doesn't have to come with a whopping price tag. That was the message from Unisys Corp. CEO Larry Weinbach here at Comdex Monday. Weinbach was joined on stage at the show by Microsoft Corp. President Steve Balmer and EMC Corp. CEO Michael Ruettgers to demonstrate a system of Unisys servers and EMC storage subsystems and software running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 2000 operating system. The system conducted 4,000 transactions per second, or 3 billion Web hits a day, and is scheduled to run non-stop for five days. That's the equivalent of 30 times the e-commerce transactions conducted last Christmas, Weinbach said. "We've taken Windows 2000 and proven it is scalable," he said. "And compared to a Unix/RISC environment ... we're one-fifth to one-third the price." Four nines The system, billed as "The Data Center of the Next Millennium," promises 99.99 percent uptime. It includes 20 Unisys ES 5000 servers with Intel Corp.'s 550MHz Xeon processors running beta code of Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Data Center. The demonstration featured a Microsoft SQL Server 7 database that held 9 terabytes of data. The rest of the system consists of EMC fault-tolerant disk storage, networking hardware from Cisco Systems Inc., Giganet Inc. interconnect technology, load testing software from Mercury Interactive Inc., application management software from NetIQ Inc., Qlogic Corp. host bus adapters, and tape libraries from Imation Corp. and Storage Technology Corp. Unisys will promise 99.998 percent uptime after it begins commercial shipment in the first quarter of its next-generation server, the ES 7000. That server, which sports Unisys' cellular multiprocessing technology, will be outfitted later next year with 64-bit Itanium processors from Intel. Targeting 'hybrid companies' Unisys targeted the Data Center package for what Weinbach called "hybrid companies" that are a combination of old-fashioned bricks-and-mortar enterprises and new e-commerce startups. "The second wave will be about the hybrid companies who understand that fulfillment is critical to doing e-commerce in the long run," Weinbach said. In an interview, Weinbach said that if customers wanted to run their e-commerce on another operating system then Unisys would oblige, but, looking to the future, he sees Windows 2000 as offering a definite cost advantage over Unix OSes like Solaris and a scalability advantage over Linux. "Total cost of ownership is going to be critical as soon as you see a downturn" in the economy, he said. "You are going to see a pullback." Unisys, of Blue Bell, Pa., is at www.unisys.com.