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To: pgerassi who wrote (108036)	8/22/2000 10:28:18 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Peter Rabbit - Re: "Many screwdriver shops will sell it to you preconfigured. The prices I quoted are from Pricewatch and as such include profits for the sellers of each item. Do not fall into the trap that if, IBM (or any other OEM) does not sell it, it can not be any good. There is a higher cost in initial training and setup, but the downstream benefits and savings are very high. Expansion is quite simple, all new systems run the same software (it can be simply copied over the network) and can utilize the latest CPU speeds and capacities. Reconfiguring is the simple running of a few public domain utilities. Linux and all of the other software can be supported from the internet. Uptimes are in the many 9s levels." Maybe these should be used for the new Air Traffic Controller systems. I'll bet those ScrewDriver shops will be real responsive to fix any glitches after a few airplanes drop out of the sky. Paul

To: pgerassi who wrote (108036)	8/22/2000 11:41:52 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Pete, >Uptimes are in the many 9s levels. Hard to believe, with the lashup of cables that must be required, vs. reliable backplanes. There is a lot more to system specifying than cost. Service comes to mind first. Who maintains these things? At least the clusters of Xeon based servers, or Suns, will have a major company's service organization behind it. Sorry, your 72 PC contraption will never sell to Fortune 1000 companies, who buy the vast majority of IT equipment. Nor will Exodus, Ebay, or Amazon types buy it. They want something they can put in and not worry about. Tony