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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (61935)	8/6/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Mary - Re: 'Where do you think Wintel growth will be coming from?" The departmental server and small Web Site servers suit Intel's 2-Way and 4-WAY SMP platform really well - excellent performance vs. cost. This will be the high volume server market - and Intel will make major market share gains with Xeon servers. For more horsepower, 8-way servers, Intel will be introducing a new chip set with the Corollary technology late this year or early next. This will get them a boost into the higher performance range. Unfortunately, WIndows NT and the 4/8 way Xeon limitations will probably hold back Intel in the really large enterprise "space". Sun and HP still have much better offerings in hardware and software. Intel really needs Solaris in this category - and Merced ! Paul

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (61935)	8/7/1998 9:04:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, I just read Paul's response to your post and must agree. Wintel is a ways from being a contender in the high-end Unix market. However, Intel is not so far away as Unix OS systems run on Intel platforms. Even so, progress will be slow. A more likely scenario is for a serious erosion of the high end market by customers who change their implementation and/or growth strategies from having large Sun servers to having multiple WINTEL servers. (Like minicomputers did to mainframes and microcomputers did to minicomputers.) MSFT has a ways to go before enterprise level mission critical apps will be on NT--but it will happen.