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To: Stormweaver who wrote (15878)	4/29/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Well, originally you claimed that dual p3 was priced at $5k and now you say dual p2 is $6.8K? Sun does not sell directly and the pricing model has a list price and a discount schedule which I don't deal with on a daily basis, but a few months ago I asked for the list price of an Ultra 10 with dual cpu somewhat similar to a PowerEdge2300 dual p2-400 and found that its price was not too far up from your figure above. Remember that's a list price. Sales people and resellers have a latitude in final price. Bottom line is price performance and reliability. No end user is dim witted enough to pay more than necessary. They pay for the value they get out of a product. In your case you can pay less for a Wintel workstation and have access to more jazzy (not more functional) apps, but once in while at the most critical time your system freezes up and you lose your ongoing work. If that happens just once in the life of your workstation, it will cost you several folds the upfront cost you save. One more time: you get what you pay for.