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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (80094)	4/26/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Jay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary Re ""New Airlines", I would use one of Intel's new datacenters" I think Tony pointed out the key reason why mainframes are better for this kind of application - you have one centralized database. You wouldn't want the same seat sold to two different people. This is difficult/expensive to ensure with multiple machines updating the same database. In a read-only environment - like most web-surfing - the information can be easily and cheaply replicated among many machines. I believe CSCO makes a router that automatically maps the same IP address to 50 machines. So if you want to serve a lot of read-only people - buy a bunch of Celerons and this kind of router and you're in business!