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To: Noel who wrote (141854)	8/17/2001 1:28:24 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Noel,<<<If you want to start a separate thread about how professionals could care less about performance but more about brand reputations, etc. please do go ahead>>> As the article says, professionals buy workstations from OEM's rather than high-end PC's from local resellers for some very compelling reasons beyond just performance: 1. OEMs <<< have special partnerships with the ISV's (Independent Software Vendor) who develop the most important workstation applications. In close co-operation with these ISV's, they verify if the workstation is capable of running each application stablely and fast. In other words, you can ask the OEM whether or he and the ISV can guarantee that your favorite application runs perfectly on the OEM's workstation. ISV certification is indeed one of the most critical factors that distinguishes a workstation from a high-end desktop>>> 2. <<<A lot of hardware with an excellent price/performance ratio comes with drivers which do not adhere strictly to certain standards such as the PCI and AGP standards. Even if this kind of hardware might comprise stability in very rare cases, it is unacceptable for a workstation.>>> 3. <<<workstations come with high-end SCSI harddisks and OpenGL videocards which are seldom found in high-end PC's. Workstations are shipped with ECC (Error Checking and Correction code) memory and can contain 2GB to 4GB memory. High-end PC's typically ship with non-ECC memory and are - in practice - limited to 512MB (i815 chipset) - 2GB (AMD760). >>> What I wanted to stress here was that Dan's article addresses issues that are interesting to a very specific, and very small, segment of the market that you obviously believe yourself to be part of - and that is perfectly okay. IMO Dan frequently distorts technical issues in a way that tries to influence casual readers of this thread and there are times (not that often) I try to put things into perspective. No matter how outrageous (IMO) Dan has been in stating "facts", I have never said he does not have a right to state his opinions as you think I do not have a right to state my opinions on this thread. Mary