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To: Road Walker who wrote (147704)	11/13/2001 12:52:41 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

John, you're welcome. It sounds like IBM is increasing their investment and commitment to Intel high end servers, and at least partially at the expense of their proprietary systems. Not so sure about the "at the expense" part, even partially. IBM keeps propping up their proprietary machines, actually making them better all the time. They refresh their mainframes with new and faster chips, and add features to them also, every couple of years, and they get a sales boost when that happens. They're also pushing Linux on them. That IBM TV commercial where a whole bunch of servers disappear and only one is left doing everything, and it's running Linux. That's a mainframe. I think they're also kicking Sun around with their new AIX machines. Back to why IBM is upgrading their Intel based servers with mainframe-like features, it's IBM covering all bases, because they can afford to. Tony