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To: Joe NYC who wrote (108051)	8/23/2000 3:38:20 AM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

Jozef, Re: If I was spending somebody elses money, I would have picked a Compaq in price range of $10,000+ per machine. But since I (and Anand) were spending our own money, a substantially faster 1 GHz Athlon based machines for about $3500 per machine are a lot more appealing. That is the key. Most purchasing are done using someone else money and it is a lot more complicated than just running some SYSMARK2000 test then compare price. I would say that 1GHz Athlon as of now is really a bargin for personal use given the price difference. gary

To: Joe NYC who wrote (108051)	8/23/2000 10:44:09 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joe, >I would have picked a Compaq in price range of $10,000+ per machine. But since I (and Anand) were spending our own money, $3500 per machine are a lot more appealing. a substantially faster 1 GHz Athlon based machines for about $3500 per machine are a lot more appealing. You can get a dual PIII Compaq server, starting for a little over half of that 10K, including hot pluggable drives, integrated NIC, integrated RAID control...real server features. Dell will probably sell the same thing to you cheaper, as they sell on price alone more than anyone these days. Certainly, the onesy twosey buyers might opt for a "homemade" server, but the 99.99% of server buyers will go for the engineered, service supported ones. Tony