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To: John Hull who wrote (158061)	2/7/2002 2:47:24 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

John, >That sounds like the Cobalt 1U servers to me. Looks like Sun considers the Cobalt boxes to be server appliances (low cost, low performance, use older, slower X86 chips, used by home offices and small businesses for web hosting and e-mail), whereas what they're announcing today is a line of general-purpose servers, including MP. I imagine they would use the fastest current X86 chips, and compete directly with Compaq's ProLiant, and Dell's Power Edge servers, e.g. Having said that, that market is pretty full with Compaq, Dell, HP, IBM and others. New single- and multiprocessor systems, to be announced mid-year, will use the x86 architecture and be capable of running thousands of Linux applications natively. Is Sun saying X86 architecture because they don't like Intel, or because they may use AMD??? sun.com cobalt.com Tony