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To: johnd who wrote (26871)	1/27/2000 5:21:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

John: I think it's more likely to put shareholder pressure on the Unisys Board of Directors to replace top management for the eighteenth time in a decade. This box has been discussed on this thread in several earlier posts which you'll forgive me for not digging up. Although the ad copy says it scales to 32 processors, there are a couple of problems with that. First, Windows NT doesn't scale to 32 processors, and Win2K doesn't either. Second, the only public announcements released so far of people using the ES7000 have involved the other alternative, dividing it up into partitions of 4 or 8 processors (the scalability limit of MS software), so it's a "cluster in a box", not a medium-scale SMP machine. Unisys is not enough of a player to maintain their own SMP Unix anymore (whether it still exists or not) because big ISV's like Oracle would ignore them, knowing that the Unix volume on these things is going to be "jack squat". So what does that leave? An engineering item on some peoples' resume's who can now apply to Sun and IBM for jobs with more security. Unisys will of course make a press release during the year 2000 every time they sell one of these devices. So you can expect to see up to 20 or 30 press releases. To the casual observer, or to those looking to make mountains out of molehills, it will look like a lot. To Sun it will look like zero, because in no case will they win a signficant deal. That's what I think. Regards, --QS