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To: rudedog who wrote (59722)	7/11/1998 2:01:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "One of the engineers in CPQ's database performance group said that in various tests of 4-way Xeon vs. 4-way Alpha systems on both TPC and some SAP benchmark the Xeon systems 'kicked the s**t' out of the Alpha boxes, in some of the tests posting 150% of the Alpha performance. Opened some eyes with that test series..." Now factor in price/performance and it becomes a slaughter... EP

To: rudedog who wrote (59722)	7/11/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

rudedog - Re: " the Xeon systems 'kicked the s**t' out of the Alpha boxes, in some of the tests posting 150% of the Alpha performance." That is very encouraging news! Thanks for the input. I assume that you are stll "close" to the situation. Although Alpha will improve over time, so will the XEON. Intel has released the 400 MHz, 1 Meg L2 cache devices but the 450 Mhz and 2 Meg L2 caches are still a few weeks away from introduction. So, there's still more UPSIDE in the near term for Xeon. I just hope there's a lot of customers for Compaq's Xeon Servers. Paul