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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (1607)	8/5/2002 10:47:27 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Respond to of 4345

More "computer hardware!" Charles Tutt (SM)

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (1607)	8/5/2002 11:03:19 AM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 4345

But with 0% financing and no payments for some period of time...even their financing division has matured...LOL!

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (1607)	8/7/2002 12:41:09 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 4345

Form the inquirer: HP rips into Sun V480 limitations The Daily Burton By Adamson Rust: Wednesday 07 August 2002, 12:35 WE DON'T KNOW why, but no-one at Sun Microsystems seems to want to talk to the INQUIRER, gets out onion, sheds crocodile tears. [But isn't that true of HP and IBM too? Ed.] Documents seen by the INQ, however, show that HP is talking to its partners big time, with Burtonism apparently able to stem the flow from Carly's fiefdom. This time HP is having a good old go at loveable Scott McNealy's Sun Fire platforms, which a document we saw claims is intended to protect the outfit from the likes of Wintel and low cost Linux systems. The V480, HP says, has poor performance, limited scalability, poor high availability features and marginal investment protection. It finds itself in a horrible space, competing with the HPQ RP 2470 two ways systems, the RP 5430/5470 two/four way servers, and also against four way Intel servers, according to the info we've seen. One line is telling on the famous UltraSPARC III – the V480 has to rely on the lagging CPU performance of the SPARCy chip. There's worse. HP reckons the V480 isn't available in any kind of quantities, and although its price points seem tempting, its lack of features, limited performance, and minimal system RAS doesn't give it very much investment protection at all. It's going to be pretty hard to upgrade too. Any comment, Sun? Our phone number is on this page if you look hard enough... µ