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To: JDN who wrote (34688)	8/25/2000 6:17:43 PM
From: Prognosticator	Respond to of 64865

Thanks for the comments: I took a look at SYNT and MAPX and they have both been moving sideways and downward for a while (and you appear to have been taking the ride with them). I do see significant differences betwen these two companies and SVCW: SYNT appears to be defocused, general ecommerce, we'll do anything for you. MAPX is very narrow: AS400 platform only, and not able to handle other platforms without making acquisitions. SVCW do one thing: customer service software for the Internet. Let's take the rest of this discussion over to the SVCW thread. P.

To: JDN who wrote (34688)	8/25/2000 10:08:44 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 64865

A few months ago, I warned this thread that Sun was desperately looking for quantities of very fast ECC 8Meg SRAM for their servers and that they could not likely ship USIII systems with out it. Well, I guess we now know why. What's even more incredible is that IBM will likely sell it to them. I must say that all the "Sun quality" songs I hear sung on this thread are substantially off key. computerworld.com In the past year, Henkel said, he has talked with at least 50 Sun customers who complained of hardware reliability issues caused by defective memory. Systems affected by the problem appear to be those based on 400-MHz UltraSPARC-II CPU modules using either a 4MB or 8MB cache. THE WATSONYOUTH