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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (24151)	12/7/1999 4:11:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

Charles - If you read a few more of my posts you will see that I agree with you - the database market is one of the areas where requirements seem to grow to use up all available horsepower, and the biggest single system wins. Note also that several of the other "Big" configurations are clusters and do not allow a simple migration of the database schema and application to a bigger environment. But the Intel based machines are not ants picking at the UE10000, they are machines which are about UE6500 class performance and they will be knocking on the door in some markets. Likewise you will see Oracle benchmarks soon on those boxes which will provide mid tier performance equivalent to Sun's midrange and upper midrange. The pure horsepower argument is therefore not sustainable long term. 16 way and 32 way Intel architecture is on the horizon, Unisys will have such a machine (the CMP architecture) within 6 months (if you believe their press). Lower cost versions will surely follow from the big Intel vendors, in both IA32 and IA64 flavors. The sustainable advantage for Sun will be a unified architecture which embraces both large monolithic designs and distributed designs from a common programming model, and which seamlessly integrates existing applications.