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To: Robert who wrote (23562)	11/29/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 64865

Thanks, for the post I'll read up on the competition.

To: Robert who wrote (23562)	11/29/1999 11:01:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

Having a system with hundreds of processors isnt such a technical feat as Thomas mentioned - getting them to utilize cpu's, memory and I/O for commercial applications like Oracle in an efficient way is why Sun is so succesful versus SGI, Sequent, IBM, etc. Architectures like MPP and NUMA are difficult to tune and have higher levels of cost and complexity in the "real world". 64 Ultra Sparc CPU's is enough headroom for most companies - but Sun's trump card is that you get linear scalability all the way from a single CPU to a Starfire while running the same OS and applications. Now why would anyone want hundreds of cpu's in a Compaq/DEC machine when no one wants them with 12??