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To: Tony Viola who wrote (114665)	10/21/2000 10:14:57 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony - that's revenue, not units. On a Units basis, if we consider all of the IDC categories, Intel-based systems have about 85% of the market. CPQ's industry-standard server division alone had more server revenue than Sun last year.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (114665)	10/22/2000 11:39:46 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: quite a stat for a type of server that didn't exist at all until the Pentium Pro. You should probably go back to SCO Xenix 286 and Netware 286 to begin tracking the significant penetration of Intel based servers into business markets - and that puts the beginning around 1985. Those early Netware and SCO boxes were fairly expensive too. Dan

To: Tony Viola who wrote (114665)	10/22/2000 11:50:36 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

Tony - CPQ introduced the SystemPro in 1988 - it was an SMP server based on the 386. It featured RAID disk and a bus architecture which owed more to minicomputers than PCs. It is usually regarded as the breakthrough product that created the Intel-based server market. Both SCO and MSFT developed SMP-capable operating systems for the SystemPro (it was OS/2 for MSFT at that point). Several other companies got on the bandwagon with "superservers" - Tricord was an early example - but CPQ dominated that market for the next 8 years. In 1992 they brought out the ProLiant which initially used 486 but quickly moved to Pentium, and was 4-way capable. By the time the PPro came along, CPQ was already deriving 70% of its profit from Intel based servers.