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To: rupert1 who wrote (73075)	12/3/1999 12:36:00 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 97611

www.amazon.com is running Stronghold/2.4.2 Apache/1.3.6 C2NetEU/2412 (Unix) on DIGITAL UNIX Stronghold is also being used by Network Solutions. DIGITAL UNIX users include The Vatican, and Lycos.

To: rupert1 who wrote (73075)	12/3/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: paul	Respond to of 97611

Actually Sun is used in the Data Warehousing Side of Amazon's business..its just more bad news for Compaq Publication: Computergram International Issue Date: December 2, 1999 Issue Number: 3802 HP-Amazon Deal a Big Blow for Compaq's Alpha By Timothy Prickett Morgan When Hewlett-Packard Co announced yesterday that it had got its foot in the data center door at online bookseller Amazon.com, it was Compaq's AlphaServer that got the boot. According to Patrick Rogers, who heads up worldwide marketing for the HP 9000 line, Amazon.com's back end applications, which run on Oracle data bases, have up until now run on Compaq's AlphaServers on top of its Tru64 Unix variant. Compaq has, of course, made much hay out of this fact. Additionally, AlphaServers support the web front- ends at Amazon.com, too, he says. He says that Amazon.com has hundreds of AlphaServers running these two workloads, and that many of them are, not surprisingly, the latest 10-way GS140 SMP servers. Looking forward to the Christmas buying season a few months ago, Amazon.com reckoned that it would need to triple the processing capacity of its back-end servers to meet the holiday crush. The company eliminated Compaq's Alphas and IBM's RS/6000s from the bidding early because at the time neither of them offered the scalability that HP's V2500s and Sun's Starfires did