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To: J Fieb who wrote (1108)	3/13/1999 7:27:00 AM
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RE DGN; The stock price is slumping, slumping while Claarion is doubling in manpower. The price is less than .5 of sales now. Is the server side of the biz that bad. Is anyone looking at DGN as a value play on FC yet?Any thoughts out there on DGN? Thanks in advance. I need to make my FC net a little bigger and wonder what to add. Mirror, Mirror On The Wall The CLARiiON storage unit of Data General last week rolled out mirroring hardware, software and services designed to duplicate data at sites up to 18.6 miles apart. Mirroring is available immediately on the FC5700 Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays, and the FC5500 and C3500 series. It supports with servers running Sun Solaris and Microsoft Windows NT. Support for IBM AIX and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX is still to come. Q2) What happened to the 10 mile limit on FC? Compaq, IBM each prep clustering for NT -- Microsoft A Partner on Separate Objects Mary Hayes with Tom Davey Compaq and IBM are competing for a leadership role in the development of more-powerful Windows NT servers. Both vendors are working with Microsoft on projects for advancing technology for NT clusters, and both have solidified plans for eight-processor Wintel servers expected to ship this summer. By June, IBM plans to deliver a Microsoft-certified extension to Microsoft Cluster Server that lets users cluster up to eight IBM Netfinity systems for load balancing, data sharing, and failover using a Fibre Channel interconnect, according to sources. "There's definitely a need for this type of clustering," says Tony Iams, an analyst with D.H. Brown Associates, though he's skeptical that IBM has done much actual development of the technology so far. Compaq and Microsoft signed a clustering co-development agreement last fall. In April, they'll present a road map for delivering advanced clustering. The focus will be on standard technology to be available to all server vendors. Meanwhile, IBM is planning an eight-way Pentium Xeon system that corrects up to 8 bits of memory at a time, reducing the risk of crashes due to memory failures. Compaq is designing a rack-mounted eight-way server. Both vendors' units will support up to 16 Gbytes of memory. Digex, an Internet service provider, is eager for eight-way processing. "We have over 35 implementations of SAP for E-commerce sites, all on Compaq NT boxes," says Bobby Patrick, VP of marketing and product development. "Adding more CPU horsepower will help customers tremendously." IBM and Compaq this week will also unveil four-way servers using the 550-MHz Pentium III Xeon, which Intel is debuting along with a 500-MHz Xeon CPU. IBM's 5500M20 starts at about $8,500, and its high-end 7000M10 is about $10,500. Compaq will use a 550-MHz chip in up to four-way ProLiant 6000, 6500, and 7000 models; starting prices range from $9,943 to $21,193.