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To: BGR who wrote (85006)	12/12/1998 1:17:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176388

So you would prefer that DELL gives up the Internet server space altogether. No Apratim, and I am not an expert in this area but from what I have seen in the past a huge online site that we are all familiar with was most efficiently managed by a group of servers (clustered?), not all produced by the same vendor even. The orders themselved were cached in one system - then dispersed to other systems designated for each specific product type etc. The reason for this, was so backlog numbers etc could be calculated quickly for each division on an ad-hoc basis during the day. So, hypothetically, say you enter an order for a cpu, monitor and printer Im saying the order gets segmented into its components and each of those areas is managed by its own IT organization etc. - smaller servers are required with this model. There are challenges to doing business this way especially when it comes time to consolidate everything on the invoice and see what actually shipped but the benefits of having immediate adhoc reporting of numbers pertinent to the specific division involved far outweighed the other issues. My point is I see a trend away from that huge number cruncher box that you needed to house a monolithic integrated app like Sap.