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To: Elmer who wrote (40563)	11/1/1998 4:20:00 PM
From: Crossy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576642

Elmer, I'm quite familiar with price / performance ratios of Server designs and the tpc-Benchmarks. My argument however is UNCHANGED. Basically XEON at 4x is fine but it's not a RISC killer that XEON 8x SMP was supposed to be. Intel finally found the mistake and revamped the XEON as You indicated. Fact is they lost 6 months. How many more months can they afford to loose ? Their game plan was to be able to compete vs.RISC designs alone - not being joined by AMD in this competitive effort. With K7 in the pipeline, they won't have this market just for themselves. Of course the future goes with the traded-up X86 camp. We all know that - if we didn't we would invest in SUN or SGI. However we disagree on execution. I said INTC lost half a Year to generate crucial high-end solutions. It will be hard to make up for that.. CROSSY

To: Elmer who wrote (40563)	11/1/1998 6:04:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576642

Elmer-the-great-analyst, <Xeon still have the best price/performance in the industry [for servers]> The point you are constantly missing is that the price is not the main factor in server's business. The absolute performance is an ultimate factor, with scalability. There are also other parameters as how well a server holds overflow of requests, which is not measured by your TPC. If a server cannot do a peak job to satisfaction, it is useless, and has to be scaled up to do the job. I suspect that some 486 machines may have the best price/performance ratio as measured by the TPC, but so what?