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To: Joe NYC who wrote (96263)	3/2/2000 4:11:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575798

Joe - Re: "They sell HUGE 64 BIT SERVERS for well over $100,000 a piece! Have you made any budget proposals lately? Suppose you have 2 of these machines as Plan A, and 6 of them as Plan B, doing pretty much the same thing. Guess which one will be selected?" Thanks for the perfect lead in !! Answer - NEITHER !!!! The equivalent Intel Merced Server will cost 1/2 to 1/3 that of a Sun server !!!! THE INTEL MERCED SERVER WILL BE SELECTED In your AMDroid jargon - Merced will be the PRICE and PERFORMANCE LEADER !!!! You keep alibi-ing that 64 bit CPUs aren't needed - and if they ARE needed, only an AMD 64 bitter will do. Will, Jozeph, I hate to be the one to BREAK THE BAD NEWS to you - AMD AIN'T GOT NO 64 BIT CPU !!!! Intel has one - ITanium/Merced - and IT WORKS !!! And the second generation - McKinley - will SHIP before AMD ever gets its FIRST 64 bit SludgeHumper !! Accept it - Intel is AHEAD - WAY AHEAD !!! You may not like it - and even DENY IT - but that's YOUR PROBLEM ! Paul