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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (102770)	4/7/2000 12:34:00 AM
From: chic_hearne	Respond to of 1575429

Re: So a few years from now people may be saying servers aren't as important as storage when it comes to IT spending, kind of like PCs may not get as much spending as other stuff right now. Cirruslvr, Two years ago I read a report in Wired magazine interviewing the CEO of MCI Worldcom. He said, "Qwest and Global Crossing are unneccisary, we have so much banwidth, we don't know what to do with it". Now what are they saying? There's a glut on the internet? No, that couldn't be!!! Broadband will completely change the need for servers. chic

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (102770)	4/7/2000 12:48:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1575429

<This is one of the reasons AMD and their partners need to get their multi-way capable chipsets out so AMD can make an entrance into the server market. > Yes, commercial and server market penetration is important for AMD. <"More importantly, a couple of recent studies looked at IT spending broken down between servers and storage, and a few years ago servers dominated. It was [a ratio of] about 75-to-25 servers and storage. Right now we're at the crossover point where the spending on servers and storage is roughly equal. And the estimate is that by 2003, storage will be 75 percent of IT dollars and servers will be 25. And the study even made the quote that by 2003, computers or servers will be secondary to storage. There the entire server-storage relationship flip-flops."> Man, this is so true! The interent has changed the processor/storage paradigm BIG time. Just think of how we work on internet. The issue is not processing it is serving large data bases. I expect high bandwidth, low latency storage mechanism will dominate the next decade. Chuck