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To: Mark Brophy who wrote (57404)	6/6/1998 10:25:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Mark - Re: "You forgot about Alpha. Samsung will be the main producer and the delay gives them another 6 months to compete with Merced." Be realistic. How much headway has the ALPHA chip made since it debuted in 1992? Answer - NOT MUCH! So, in 6 years, Alpha has barely dented the server and workstation world. It would be a stretch to think that ALPHA could make significant inroads in a 6 month window when they couldn't do anything significant in SIX YEARS! Paul

To: Mark Brophy who wrote (57404)	6/6/1998 10:36:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mark - Compaq, DEC's New Owner, is Introducing New Pentium II Workstations . They use 350 and 400 MHz Pentium IIs. There is no mention of a new Alpha-based Workstation. Paul {=================================} Search Home Advanced Search Search Help Search the Web Direct Article Link \| New Search \| Search the Web June 08, 1998, TechWeb News Compaq Extends Workstation Line By Joe Wilcox Houston -- Compaq Computer Corp. unveiled today a new value workstation line for price-conscious customers looking for better performance than a high-end PC or dual-processor capability. The Professional Workstation AP400 is the first model in what Compaq, based here, dubbed the Affordable Price/Performance (AP) line. The company expects the new workstation line to primarily appeal to large corporate workgroups or small and midsize businesses and to high-end IT customers looking for a two-processor capable system. Target markets include computer-aided design, architectural engineering and construction, digital content creation and financial trading-a market where Compaq's workstations already are well-represented. The AP400 comes in a small form factor that offers the power of a workstation at the size of a PC, Compaq executives said. The workstation, which uses Intel Corp.'s 440BX chipset and 100MHz front-side bus, also supports up to eight CRT or flat-panel monitors running off one system. "What we're really doing for resellers is expanding the price-performance and performance range of our line so that they have another new market to sell to," said Dave Parsons, Compaq's director of North America workstation marketing. Parsons described the AP400 line as more than a new model exploiting Intel 440BX chipset and the 100MHz front-side bus. It is a fundamental shift in strategy, emphasizing price as well as performance, he said. The workstation ranges from about $2,800 to $5,000, depending on the configuration. The entry-level system, which includes a 350MHz Pentium II processor, 64 Mbytes of RAM, a 4-Mbyte Matrox Millennium II graphics card, 6.4-Gbyte Ultra ATA hard drive and 32X CD-ROM drive, carries a street price of $2,800. A 400MHz Pentium II workstation with 128 Mbytes of RAM, ELSA Gloria Synergy+ graphics card, 4.3-Gbyte Wide-Ultra SCSI and 32X CD-ROM drive, carries a street price of $3,550. Both hardware configurations include a Compaq NC 3121 Fast Ethernet network interface connection and support for DMI 2.0. The AP400 is certified to run Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 and 5.0 Beta 1, Windows 95 and 98 and Solaris 2.6. The AP400 product line is the result of a design-to-cost effort Compaq started more than a year ago. At the same time, the company said it also is expanding its workstation distribution channel to include mail-order companies, such as MicroWarehouse, Lakewood, N.J. "When you look at the traditional commercial distributors as well as the industrial folks we've brought on board, you find our desktop and portable guys are already engaged with [mail-order] companies. We haven't traditionally offered product through that pipe," Parsons said. In recent weeks, Compaq started moving excess Workstation 5000s through MicroWarehouse, "feeling out the waters" in this new workstation distribution channel, he said. Compaq also confirmed the Workstation 5000 is now an end-of-life product. MicroWarehouse is selling a Workstation 5000 with a 200MHz Pentium processor, 2.1-Gbyte SCSI hard drive, 8X CD-ROM drive and NIC for $899. Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc. New Search \| Search the Web You can reach this article directly here: techweb.com