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To: QwikSand who wrote (37160)	10/30/2000 12:44:23 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 64865

Yes, but we're forgetting about the white-box Intel market. My point was that there are plenty of Intel servers powering the web that don't have ECC main memory, with more being sold right now today. And how is that Intel's fault??? Intel doesn't supply main memory. They do however supply CPUs with on chip L2 SRAM cache which is ALL ECC. Any server maker that wanted to sell into SUN's main customers wouldn't think of not providing ECC main memory. By the same token, if SUN expects to keep those customers, they better provide ECC L2 SRAM cache. And now.... with USIII, they apparently will. So.... who is following who here???? THE WATSONYOUTH

To: QwikSand who wrote (37160)	10/30/2000 8:08:45 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

QS - The rapid rise of Intel-based "web blades" is, as you say, based around a pure price argument - and the configurations that win mostly use the highest volume components available, desktop stuff. I also agree that SUNW is not much of a presence in that market, and certainly not with either UE6500 or UE10000, the machines with the cache problem. I don't fault SUNW for their response here - as you say, they reacted quickly with a fix. I am a little surprised that their people would have designed a high end machine which did not have at least the same reliability features as their lower-cost competition. The comparison needs to be between the UE machines and the 4-way and 8-way Intel based products, since those would be the machines which would have the capability to compete for UE business.