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To: Windsock who wrote (153124)	12/24/2001 11:21:59 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Compaq is selling its 590 4-way Itanium server, but not on a web site. This will be hard for a HemDroid to understand but 4-way servers are not a casual purchase that is typically made from a web site or a 7-11. Can you believe that! Like someone is going to order their enterprise class server over the internet and have it delivered by UPS, just like you'd order one for your Daughter! These guys don't have a clue. EP

To: Windsock who wrote (153124)	12/24/2001 11:30:20 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: 4-way servers are not a casual purchase that is typically made from a web site They've just restarted production. Itanium configurations engineered by Intel were buggy (though shipped by Dell and HP, just not Compaq) until the the latest version. It will take a little while for them to get through production and become available for sale. You can configure a million dollar server on SUN's site, and if Compaq were completely confident in Itanium, they'd probably let you do the same. First versions of anything based on parts from the commodity vendors like Intel and AMD often have minor problems. This isn't that big a deal. Some of the early AMD products were fussy about mixing DIMMs from different manufacturers, just as the early Dell (and other) systems using 810 and 815 Intel chipsets were only stable if used with certain Micron memory chips. It happens. The permutations of possible combinations of hardware and software are almost infinite.