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To: Len Roselli who wrote (56715)	6/2/1998 6:32:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Len & Intel Investors - Xeon Servers are "Leaking Out" Unisys is jumping the gun a little on "announcing" a XEON-based server. With Intel's rumored XEON prices, a few sales of these will help out Intel's current quarter! Paul {==========================} Unisys Will Roll Out Wintel-Based Server by Martin J. Garvey, InformationWeek June 02, 1998 (01:20 P.M.) techweb.com Unisys next week will introduce the HMP LX 5000 server, a platform that runs mainframe software and NT on Intel processors. The servers will deliver mainframe-system stability for Wintel prices, the company said. The LX 5000 will not perform as well as the most powerful Unisys mainframe, and it will not be the least expensive NT server. But for the first time ever, mainframe customers will not have to maintain proprietary hardware to keep running data. The LX 5000 will appear as an NT server, access to the mainframe data will require just a click of an icon. Customers appreciate the integration. Legacy software becomes instantly cheaper to maintain, because the proprietary architecture is gone. "Intel inside, open-commodity hardware brings mainframe computing to us cheaper," says Chris Bell, chief technology officer for electrical distributor Rexel USA. "We won't have all the proprietary boards and hardware." Bell and other customers also will not have the most fail-safe mainframe running on NT, but pricing will be competitive with similar NT systems that have none of the mainframe capabilities. An eight-user version of the LX 5000 will sell for $27,000, and a 64-user version will be priced at $84,000. Customers get Intel Xeon or Pentium II microprocessor-based servers capable of running MCP/AS (one of the mainframe legacy operating systems from Unisys) applications and databases. NT runs as the base operating system underneath the MCP/AS software, and Unisys' heterogeneous multiprocessing FastPath software provides Windows NT/MCP shared memory integration. "It's very inexpensive because it has so much more on it than other NT servers," says Charlie Burns, an analyst with IT advisory firm Giga Information Group. "Unisys will give people a lower price than they've had before to run the applications, and they don't have to convert any existing code." Copyright 1998, CMP Media Inc.