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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7342)	1/27/1998 11:20:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Thomas - Starfires start at a more reasonable price around $500,000 - most are sold with less than the 64 processors which is the max but customers are paying for the headroom. They have a unique feature of partititioning the machine so that it can act like 2 or more servers. So one can back up the other as a fault tolerant system or half the machine can be used for OLTP applications and the other half as a data warehouse - pretty neat huh? This feature is common on Mainframes but a first for Unix, thats why Starfires are positioned as Mainframe killers. Also the cost is not that expenseive when you consider that a single UE6000 can run much more applications and users than hundreds of NT boxes - the administration costs are much cheaper alone. I think there is an example of a single UE6000 running the same # of mail users as 300 NT boxes and MS Exchange.

To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7342)	1/27/1998 11:31:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

<<Will yours for $3m be a special one or are they all in this price range? Where do these Starfires start pricewise?>> I don't really know, but I can find out. I believe they can have up to 64 CPU's and compete with mainframes on a performance basis. There's another post on this thread (#7338) which points to a URL about how they were given an award. The Starfire would replace several Sparcserver 2000's and 1000's which we have, so the one we're may be fully loaded. I think we're paying for it over a couple of years.