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To: Mike Milde who wrote (12210)	12/1/1998 10:33:00 AM
From: Fortinwit	Respond to of 64865

Mike: Do we really care how many people are setting up NT machines in their closets to run a small web site? I do. My clients keep buying large Compaq servers to run large database systems. This is in spite of what I tell them (and it's my job to know). Their reason is that the Compaq/NT stuff costs a lot less both H/W wise and S/W wise. That's true. Unfortunately the reality is, the 2 processor Ultra-2 I just installed runs Sybase roughly 10 times faster than the 4 processor Compaq 5000 they wanted, yet does not cost 10 times as much. It's worrying... F.