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To: cheryl williamson who wrote (24090)	12/6/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

CW , I see you are back to protect the purity of SUNW propaganda! To my knowledge, Rudedog has never worked for MSFT. Why don't you try responding to his technical points rather than simply using debating tricks (ad hominem attacks) to dis him. You should reserve those tactics for your husband.<g> He said that SMP is intrinsically less reliable and that the Gartner study shows their Starfire servers do not make the grade. :)

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (24090)	12/7/1999 5:29:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Cheryl - Gimme a break, the only reason I ever post to the MSFT thread is to respond to you... I have never been a MSFT employee although I have done consulting for them on database and storage subsystems work - as I have done for Sun. I have spent at least as much time going up and down first st in San Jose as I have in Redmond. Nor am I a Wintel bigot. I use Wintel desktops but I have an even mix of Unix and NT servers - with the Unix mostly Solaris on Sun HW. If you are a Gartner subscriber you can get the report for yourself. If not I will post some snippits - as a paying customer I don't intend to violate their copyrights. Now lets get to the demand for starfire. Sun has sold less than 3000 starfire systems EVER. CPQ sells 3000 servers A DAY. Starefire is important for a number of reasons, but big volume ain't one of them.