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To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7392)	1/28/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: William T. Katz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I wonder how many people on WS know these critical technical things. I once heard an analyst ask what the storage capacity of a "8.4 gig drive" was ... they had to explain to him gig = gigabyte = 1000 megabytes. So I don't think general WS has much technical knowledge although specific analysts might have some knowledge depending on their sector.

To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7392)	1/28/1998 7:18:00 PM
From: John Chen	Respond to of 64865

Thomas,re:"WS..". They ask: where is RESET, is CTL-ALT-DEL available, is General Fault Protection provided, does it run DOS and WHERE IS THE MONEY.

To: Thomas Haegin who wrote (7392)	1/29/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: Bala Vasireddi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

sun.com is white paper (acrobat) describing the E10000 (aka starfire in more detail). Basically It has a 16 slot chasis. Each slot takes board that can up to 4 UltraSPARC CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 4 SBus slots. It all adds up to 64 CPUs, 64GB RAM, etc. The backplane is rated at 12.x GBytes/sec. System is designed with complete redundancy and no single points of failure. The System can be partioned into 8 domains, each domain running its own copy of Solaris. Dynamic partitioning is supported (i.e ability to "migrate" CPU/system boards between domains without having to take the system down). This is a "big" selling feature for consolidating your large enterprise App from multiple servers onto one. On the same machine you can have 2 domains one to handle "production" workload and other to handle "development/staging" workload. During peak times (aka like quarter end close) when you need maximum horse power, you can migrate your "development/staging" resources to production, all without having to the system down. This is one of the biggest selling feature for these systems. Hope this helps. -Bala