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To: Paul Engel who wrote (150581)	11/30/2001 4:45:50 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "Back in June, AMD's stock was up 117% for the year, but it's given back all of those gains. The No. 2 semiconductor manufacturer's stock has taken a beating because it's seen as the loser in a fierce price war with Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - news), the No. 1 chip maker." AMDroids should take note. wbmw

To: Paul Engel who wrote (150581)	11/30/2001 6:33:22 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, I thought you might like to see a few endorsements for the Compaq ProLiant DL590/64 Itanium server. compaq.com PRODUCT ENDORSEMENTS "GMAC Commercial Mortgage is dedicated to providing our customers with state of the art features that will enhance our service to better meet their needs. This is why we need a dependable solution that will allow us to see significant performance improvements. We feel the Compaq Itanium-based servers will bring our customers enhanced reliability and will boost our enterprise performance." ----Niraj Patel, CIO and Executive Vice President of GMAC Commercial Mortgage -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Direct Insite provides a number of services to telecommunications service providers, including electronic bill presentment and payment services. As such, we must continually remain alert to opportunities for greater record handling capability. Based on our analysis of a successful 1 billion record test, the Itanium-based server from Compaq looks like an excellent emerging technology to take the performance of data mining applications to a new level, and handle the exponential increase in records that the industry is expecting." ----Mike Koenig, Director of Software Development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Reuters is investigating the benefits that Intel's new IA64 architecture may offer in the areas of processing power and total cost of ownership. We have several evaluation projects underway utilizing Itanium platforms provided by Intel and Compaq, and are encouraged by the results so far." ----Mike Sayers, Reuters Chief Technology Officer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Itanium(tm) server from Compaq will enable Digex to offer a more powerful platform to our clients that have heavy duty database requirements. Compaq has produced an Itanium box that is tailored to the service provider, with out-of-band administration and a pre-boot interface that allows programmable control of the hardware configuration. As web services become more sophisticated, they will need the power that the Compaq Itanium server offers." ----Richard Wolfe, Lead Architect -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Johns Hopkins University SDSS project is handling over 10 million galaxies in a database, stored in SQL Server 2000. Over the next four years, the catalog size will increase to about 300 million objects, half of which are galaxies. The effects of large memory can be seen very clearly: for 10 million galaxies, we can do the computation in about 15 hours, both in the 32 and the 256 GB machine, but in 1 GB the computation requires 16 days. When we start working with about 32 million objects, then the 1 GB computation will take half a year, while in 32 GB we can do the job in 10 days! The Itanium based server from Compaq is the perfect platform for these megacalculations." ----Alex Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor Read Full Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "KPMG Consulting is a leading global business advisor and systems integrator, handling systems with large volumes of data and supporting multiple data warehouses. From strategy to architecture to integration, we combine our industry knowledge with Compaq technological expertise to create solutions that bring tangible and innovative business value to our clients." "By working with Compaq and the Itanium solution we will be able to achieve very high levels of performance to serve our clients in both public and private sectors." ----David Leadbeater, Head of e-Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Data Return's goal is to be first to market with managed application services on the Itanium architecture. The Compaq Itanium(tm) platform coupled with SQL-64 will enhance our ability to provide database services to larger corporations by delivering greater scalability while continuing to provide a high level of reliability." ----Jason A. Lochhead, CTO Read Full Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This Itanium solution will enable the easy and confident deployment of high-performance clusters with Compaq's extensive hardware support and the high-performance cluster management from the NPACI Rocks system. Leveraging large-memory capability of IA-64 and world-class performance will enable new advances in computational chemistry." ----Philip Papadopoulos, Interim Associate Director and Group Leader, Distributed Computing Read Full Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We look forward to launching the beta of our Itanium-based service Q3 of this year, and dramatically improving the efficiencies of POPcast's automated and scalable streaming video solutions for service providers. We're delighted to participate in the Itanium End User Pilot program, and we will continue to rely on our technology partners such as Compaq and Intel to provide the high-performance industry-standard 64-bit solutions we require to deliver world-class service." ----William Mutual, Chairman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Compaq's implementation of Intel's Itanium technology will enable the Bank to undertake projects such as large scale, highly structured statistical modeling of customer data that are currently very difficult to implement." ----Francois Christen, Vice President, Wells Fargo Distribution Strategies Read Full Quote -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "By working with Compaq, Accenture is giving its customers an early lead in bringing high-performance, scalable 64-bit applications to the enterprise. In addition to our collaboration on the development platform for 64-bit computing, Accenture and Compaq operate High-Performance Scalability Labs devoted to tuning, porting, testing and migrating enterprise applications to the ProLiant platform. We want our clients to enjoy simple, tightly integrated rollouts of these new more powerful enterprise applications." ----Raymond Goff, Director, Accenture High Performance Scalability Lab -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Skoda Auto is the market leader of its industry in the Czech Republic. Five years ago, we decided to build our server environment with Compaq. We began by implementing our SAP R/3 system on Compaq hardware running Microsoft Windows NT. SAP R/3 is one of our main business critical systems and requires the most powerful and reliable platform." "Our experience with Compaq led us to have the confidence to install and test the Compaq ItaniumTM-based server, with four Intel® ItaniumTM processors and the 64-bit version of Microsoft Windows 2000. The server has shown magnificent CPU performance in our tests. These test results confirmed our interest in using the ItaniumTM-based server for our SAP system. Installation of this server as an application server allows us to reduce the number of application servers, and increases the performance of the whole system." ----Ludek Pavlik, Information and Communication Technology Services Manager wbmw