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To: rupert1 who wrote (60454)	5/4/1999 8:57:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Posted 03/05/99 4:49pm by Mike Magee Compaq slashes prices on Linux Alpha servers Compaq today announced it has cut the price of its Alpha low end servers by $2,000 for the Tru64 DS20 boxes and by 20 per cent for the Linux boxes. The dual server boxes are set to fall to a level where they directly challenge Intel servers. A DS20 using two Alpha 500MHz 21264 chips now costs under $12,000. Prices of other Alpha boxes are set to fall steadily later this year as Samsung's Alpha group rolls out its solutions. ®

To: rupert1 who wrote (60454)	5/4/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 97611

Victor - I think CPQ is rationalizing its Alpha and Intel lines but I see no letup on Alpha development. They have announced that the next generation Himalaya systems will be Alpha-based, and the articles you posted from The Register claimed that the large SMP Wildfire machine will be out later this year. If the specs are right, Wildfire competes with the largest Sun machines at 128 and 256 processor configurations. The current largest Sun machine is 64 processors, with 128 later this year, so the big Alpha machine should be competitive on size and features, with the usual 2x performance advantage. Alpha is also the machine on which MSFT is developing 64 bit NT. So I would imagine that what we will see is a focus on Alpha in the high end, with configurations that no Intel-based systems can match any time in the next 5 years, with competitive Intel based offerings in the mainstream.