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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (134988)	5/14/2001 9:22:28 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Try to guess who has such a machine ready to ship in a few days. How many Exchange servers does it take to run email for 65,000 employees? Enough such that no one but an idiot would buy anything other than lots of moderately priced, very, very, conservatively speced, bog standard servers to host such a cluster. You've never been anywhere near the management responsibility side of a even a moderately sized Exchange server, have you? Dan

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (134988)	5/15/2001 2:04:55 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Eric L.: Re: "How many Exchange servers does it take to run email for 65,000 employees?" Answer: None. All it takes is a few Linux boxes. I ran over 32,000 students, teachers, and staff off of one 150MHz Alpha box. Later, a bigger load was handled by one 400MHz x86 CPU with 512MB of memory (although UIDs were set to 32 bits at that time). A T3 helped a lot to Wiscnet. For email, it does not take a Beowulf Cluster to service only 65K employees. Only for Microsoft (we waste power all over) Exchange Servers is that load too high. Pete