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To: EricRR who wrote (108920)	8/29/2000 2:59:09 PM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

Note that I didn't say what my opinion was. I was trying to interpret what the market is telling us is priced into the various securities.

To: EricRR who wrote (108920)	8/29/2000 3:10:08 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 186894

But to service the expected growth of the many small tasks, it's cheaper to deploy many single CPU systems rather than a few monster systems. Are you sure?? A very thought provoking article, the thesis of which forms the basis for IBM's Linux on VM effort. Comments?? linuxplanet.com THE WATSONYOUTH

To: EricRR who wrote (108920)	8/29/2000 4:22:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Eric, <What I specifically mean is that instead of needing one large server with many cpu's, in the future there will be many small servers, each with perhaps only one CPU, organised together over a network.> Kind of on a tangent here, but I was talking with one of my coworkers who told me that the future will be peer-to-peer networking, a la Napster but in a more general sense. Because of this, he argues, the need for general-purpose servers will decrease, and people's own desktop machines become the "servers" in a P2P world. Of course, I disagreed, saying there will always be a need for large centralized servers or server clusters, especially in the back-end (where Sun is and where Itanium wants to be). But I wonder whether you would agree with my coworker regarding the peer-to-peer concept. Tenchusatsu