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To: George Dawson who wrote (14834)	3/3/1998 11:18:00 AM
From: Craig Stevenson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29386

There is an article in the March 2nd issue of PC Week magazine that might relate to what we have been discussing. Here is an online link: zdnet.com The article's title is, "Sun Rises to The Occasion", is subtitled, "Tokyo's NTT DoCoMo succeeds as scalability, clustering test case", and begins on page 77. Obviously, the references to Sun, NTT, scalability, and clustering got my attention. Here is an interesting quote: "That problem is not uncommon in large clustered environments, because nodes in systems such as Sun's Enterprise 6000 cluster, although interconnected via a Fibre Channel link, operate essentially independently, each with its own operating system." I would be really curious to know whether this was a point-to-point link, or some sort of switched architecture. <g> All in all, a good article about how these companies need to scale. Craig