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To: Tony Viola who wrote (105170)	7/1/2000 8:06:16 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: I doubt if you'd deny they'll want to trust their business to anything without... Some of them, of course. But the really conservative players stick with SUN or Compaq Alpha. The X86 guys are using X86 to keep costs down. Don't forget, they are the ones who made Linux a credible mainstream operating sytstem. They will definitely be willing to give AMD a chance. Trusting freeware, unsupported Linux was a much bigger leap of faith than checking out AMD servers from Compaq or Gateway. I am still surprised that Intel decided to go into direct competition with their fastest growing market segment. I don't know how you earn your living, but how would you feel towards Intel if you opened this week's Business Week and saw that the closing two page ad was from Intel going after your livlihood? That's what the web hosting companies are looking at this week. "web hosting the intel way - 60/60/24/7/365 - intel online services". Pages 212-213 in this week's Business Week. What would you do when it came time to procure additional servers? Would Intel still be your first choice? And, were you asking if our AMD servers are file and print only? We run Oracle 8, SQL Server 7 (both standard and enterprise editions), ESRI Spatial Database Engine, IIS, etc. on Athlon (as well as some remaining K6 systems). The K6-3 was a terrific server chip. A K6-3 450 will outrun a Pentium III 550 on SQL Server. Our most recent "interesting" Athlon system is a workstation with 2 gigabytes of RAM in it. It's been rock solid so far and very fast processing images from a Cal Comp 810c. When we scan at full resolution (to give the image processing software the most to work with) the image sizes are as large as 1.7gig. The new workstation handles them easily. What do 2Us have that 1Us don't? Room for bigger drives and more airflow for cooling. Regards, Dan