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To: fyodor_ who wrote (87439)	8/22/2002 6:38:40 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Fyo: RAS features are overemphasized. I have seen many clusters that beat RAS boosted servers all to hell. Years of uptime, no unplanned stoppages, node MTTF in years and node MTTR at 5 to 10 minutes (mostly hard drive and PS failures). Worst case failure is losing primary ethernet switch and backup switch activation in milliseconds though at reduced compute speed (BW limited work loads). Opteron clusters will eat into Itanium high end. You could probably count sold Itanium high end RAS servers on one hand. Pete

To: fyodor_ who wrote (87439)	8/22/2002 10:06:14 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Dell's most expensive series of workstations still has 128MB RAM as the default Painting a stripe on the hood of your Hyundai doesn't make it a race car, nor does Dell calling a sub-entry level PC a workstation make it a workstation. But I think you've just made it very clear that Dell's claims of holding the largest share of the workstation market are probably complete nonsense. There are $599 PC's with 512meg RAM available, off the shelf, at Circuit City and Best Buy. If Dell's products are workstations, then those eMachines at Circuit City are mainframes - and eMachines should advertise itself as a major workstation vendor. :-)