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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (23840)	12/2/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

...didn't we once figure out that microsoft.com had something like a thousand CPU's running it (my recollection is it was over 200 quad-Pentiums)? I heard it was the world's largest refrigerated room. Hi Charles. I'm thinking now you were only off that buy point by a half of a percent. For the Tuttians following along, I'm going to go ahead and call that statistically good to go, thereby leaving your buy point accurate, and your record unblemished. -JCJ

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (23840)	12/6/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Charles - re: So if you count it right that's a lot more "market share" than the couple of E-10000's it would take to do the same work. Just for reference, take a look at tpc.org you will discover that the UE10000 is midrange in the pack, in both performance and cost. then check tpc.org a DELL 8450 series server has nearly 40% of the performance of a UE10000 at 1/20th the cost!! So the notion that one UE10000 does the work of many smaller machines is nonsense -2 of the DELL boxes are roughly equivalent, and only 1/10th the price. How long do you think that will go on?