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Non-Tech : J.B. Oxford -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DAY TRADER who wrote (1278)	2/24/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: WebDrone	Respond to of 2220

TRADER- don't quit your day job. you said: <You don't need a hundred million in computers you just need some good, fast servers, a pretty good size server farm will run under 500K and JBOH has it!> Let me steal a quote from WSJ online: <<-- Several online brokerage firms, including Schwab and ETrade Group Inc., are scrambling to upgrade computer systems, which have sometimes faltered under the weight of heavy trading. Schwab, realizing that such breakdowns amid a plunging market could be catastrophic, has rigged its computer systems to run on two mainframes instead of one*, buying time until it can make more permanent upgrades. >> When real money is on the line, a cluster of PC running NTServer are not going to cut it. I suggest big IBM iron. WebDrone (long IBM)