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To: Paul Engel who wrote (36845)	11/19/1998 1:59:00 AM
From: Kona	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Paul, don't leave out the insurance industry. <G> So what is the scoop about all these references to you and insurance fraud ?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (36845)	11/19/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: Russ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

>>Amir - Re: " can you give me one example of a single non-tech company that will benefit from replacing P100 PCs with PII-450Mhz."<< How about Dreamworks/SKG ANimation Studios - for all their animators - who wouldn't mind accelerating their renderings by a factor of two or three or four so they can get their Film Creation times down from three years to one. I really doubt that DreamWorks/SKG is using Intel based machines for ANY animation. Pixar has a render farm of Sun boxes, and I think that is fairly standard. Titanic made quite a splash in the computer graphics field because the rendering was done on networked PCs running Linux, and that was the first big commercial graphics job that didn't use big Unix iron. How about Sabre/American Airlines Reservation clerks - who can speed up queries for their customers to accelerate flight selections and ticketing reservation processes. LOL! That's a network process, with a big transaction server running remotely. The reservation clerks need minimal power, and increasing their workstations to a PII-450 will do nothing. XTerms, NCs, dumb terminals, Imacs will all work as well as a PII. How about Salamon/Smith Barney bond Traders - to keep track of tens of thousands of bonds, interset rates, yield computations and discounted cash flows, and minute by minute currency fluctuations for all major global markets ? Try Sun again. Nobody in their right mind would use PCs for this. -Russ

To: Paul Engel who wrote (36845)	11/19/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: Amir Shalit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Paul, nice reply but I tend to agree with Russ. Most of these applications will do much better with non Intel based machines. Now, I do agree that NT servers sales are doing well and represent a nice growth segment for Intel. Now, for client side applications, I can tell you that 450Mhz Dell doesn't play MPEG-2 any better than a 100Mhz Pentium clone. Both require an additional MPEG decoder card and this is considered a high end application. Airline reservation engine must run on a server and the client speed doesn't matter at all. I'm also sure that trading floor application run on servers and clients are used to click on icons and do some basic tcp/ip communication for input/output to the servers. Amir