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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (45267)6/27/2001 9:02:48 PM
From: Jim McMannisRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
Tench,
RE:"Jim, the margins in back-end servers will come down all right. Big customers will be transitioning away from proprietary expensive RISC servers like UltraSPARC and coming to better performing, higher volume, lower-cost, and (relatively) open-platform servers like Xeon and Itanium. Even a $4,500 Itanium CPU is a bargain, considering the $60K servers they are going into cost much, much less than a comparably-performing RISC server"

That's exactly what I mean't.

Maybe AMD can pick up a few scraps.

JIm



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (45267)6/27/2001 9:09:15 PM
From: muzosiRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
proprietary expensive RISC servers like UltraSPARC

i think the reason those are so expensive is that sun can charge those prices. today you can buy an entry level sun workstation (sun blade 100) for $995. it is expensive in terms of pc prices but much better than what it was 3 years ago. i assume you'd see similar response from sun when inexpensive multi-cpu servers arrive. how much more expensive an 16 cpu usparc is than an 16 cpu xeon server ?


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