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To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (65493)	9/26/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 186894

Fred and All: For those who would like a better understanding of Intel's competitive position in the server market, check out this site. tpc.org This is the Transaction Processing Performance Council. They provide the leading industry standard benchmarks for transaction processing. This link will show benchmarks from all vendors, as well as ratings by price/performance. A look at the top 10 by price/performance will show you why Intel is such a threat to all the competition. The top rated system is a Xeon 4-way server from Compaq. The other 9 are all Intel based systems as well! I wish they would show the top 20! They may all be Intel servers. This is why Xeon is such a big deal. EP

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (65493)	9/26/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Fred And Intel Investors - Server Information I just completed helping another friend buy a Pentium II system at a small system builder with which I have been doing business for about 4 1/2 years. Peering in from the loading dock (we approached from the rear) we noticed a couple of carts stacked with 18 Intel Pentium II Motherboard Boxes. Inside their factory, there was a side room with 4 1/2 stacks of similar Intel Pentium II motherboard boxes, from floor to ceiling - about 20 boxes per stack - maybe 90 boxes in all plus the 18 new ones on the receiving dock. Nearly all were N440BX motherboards, which happen to be DUAL PENTIUM II Server boards, marketed for Servers (says so right on the Intel box). We asked why there was so much Dual Pentium II motherboard demand and got two answers - First, that business is good in the valley (Silicon Valley is booming - no real surprise) and that Second - this particular manufacturer had a near exclusive contract with HOTMAIL to provide servers. HOTMAIL, for those who don't know, was a little start up that supplied free e-mail and other services to anyone on the Internet who wanted it. Microsoft purchased Hotmail outright last December for a price between $300 and $500 MILLION DOLLARS - not too shabby. Now, our CPU supplier stated that he had sold over 500 Intel Dual Pentium II servers to Hotmail so far and they continue to BUY more on a monthly basis ! Imagine that - 500 Intel Pentium II Servers - owned and operated by one company - and buying more all the time. He estimated that HOTMAIL was adding 100,000 e-mail clients per month ! More info - I assumed that these servers were running Windows NT - and was corrected. Hotmail loads its own software but the computer manufacturer thinks they are running Sun Solaris x86 (Sun's UNIX)! The Servers are equipped with DUAL 4 Gigabyte SCSI drives and configured for "fail over" where one drive acts as a backup of the other drive. The SCSI drives are UlraWide SCSI, with an emphasis on SPEED - not storage capacity. So, the relatively cheap, Server specific Dual Intel Pentium II systems make a perfect match for these SERVER FARMS ! Intel Inside - 1000 times (500 x 2) ! It warms my heart ! Paul