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To: Senator949 who wrote (28097)	6/24/1998 12:22:00 PM
From: dav	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

I am getting impatient of CPQ. It is so out of sync with DELL. Don't know when this baby will start to take off ? DAV

To: Senator949 who wrote (28097)	6/24/1998 12:44:00 PM
From: Night Writer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Robin, You noticed what I noticed, and I am not a real tech person. It appears to be installed on TerraServer. A product I am not familiar with. There are definite comments about WIN NT 5 running on Alpha. It would be a real enterprise class advantage if NT 5 ran on Alpha today. Perhaps they are close to completion. Has anyone seen a target date for NT on Alpha? NW ''Compaq and Digital's AlphaServer and StorageWorks solutions for Windows NT deliver the power, speed, and high availability to keep Microsoft TerraServer imagery available to customers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're looking forward to even more power and speed with the combination of Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0 and Windows NT version 5.0 running on the AlphaServer, which will allow customers to take advantage of Very Large Memory.''

To: Senator949 who wrote (28097)	6/24/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 97611

Robin - CPQ, Microsoft and Oracle worked out a VLM support package which runs on NT4. It has been out for nearly a year. It does not provide anything like full 64 bit capability but does allow Oracle to use the whole Alpha memory space for either in-memory database (IMDB) which is about 1000 times as fast as the same Oracle app running on disk, and also allows large cache for traditional database, which can improve performance by a factor of 20 or more. I don't know if that technology is being used in this case but it would make sense.

To: Senator949 who wrote (28097)	6/24/1998 10:32:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

>>This one really leaves me guessing. I can see the hardware side of the sale but why in the world did they sell them an NT solution. As far as I know NT has no 64bit capability yet unless there going to use NT 5.0 pre-release software. >>If it they had sold them a Digital Unix / Oracle solution it would have made more sense. Are you joking? The entire point of the enterprise was to demonstrate the scalability of NT Server as Microsoft tries to persuade all of corporate America to switch to NT 5.0 If they could not have done it on NT, they would not have done it all.