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To: rudedog who wrote (67662)	10/31/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<You're a little off the pace. Intel has been working behind the scenes throughout '98 on a reference design for a sub-1K server. CPQ and others will have product in the market in 1Q99 based on this and other designs. This is expected to be a volume market.> Intel never quoted any prices for what they call "thin servers." Show me the quote which says that these "thin servers" are going to be priced under $1000. This proclamation of a sub-$1000 server is yet another blowhard prediction from PC Magazine's John Dvorak (the Rush Limbaugh of the computer industry). It's very inconceivable to imagine that a "thin server" is going to cost under $1000. Consider that most sub-$1000 machines out there don't even have more than 32 MB of RAM. A server without enough RAM is dead in the water, period. What about a fast hard drive? Network hubs? Operating system (surely you won't run Windows 98 on a server)? Other software? OK, perhaps you can split hairs and subtract the cost of the monitor and the network hardware and the software from the price of the thin server, and perhaps you can get closer to the $1000 price range. But the whole concept of the thin server is out-of-the-box functionality, so it would be cheating not to include the cost of these necessary components. That's why servers which cost under $1000 is a pretty silly concept. Tenchusatsu