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To: Walter in HK who wrote (16467)	5/19/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Respond to of 64865

Walter, It means that the trend is to use inexpensive clients and huge servers. This is because the web model is being used more and more to get data to/from users. Sun makes money on big servers, so this is great for Sun. Hmmmm.... That seems obvious. I imagine just rambled instead of answering your question. Oh well....... Mike

To: Walter in HK who wrote (16467)	5/19/1999 11:29:00 AM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

Walter: Not sure about the meaning of your question...but that article is a simple restatement and validation of Sun's main strategic direction for many years. It means that Sun is proving to be more and more right. It is a very positive article for SUNW, which still leads the pack in scalability for servers of this kind. Regards, --QwikSand

To: Walter in HK who wrote (16467)	5/19/1999 2:16:00 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Little details make the difference. 1. It is IBM a SUNW competitor 2. HWP entered the fry too. 3. In the picture there seems to be many Intel based PC's 4. SUNW in a very competitive market. Make your conclusion as to SUNW stock price future. BWDIK Haim

To: Walter in HK who wrote (16467)	5/19/1999 5:23:00 PM
From: Sbtorres	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The Ranch==massive server farms? Anant Agrawal, vp engineering/chip group had an interview with IBD 11 May Here are excerpts <<Starting this month, Sun manufacturing partner Texas Instruments Inc. is expected to produce the first Ultrasparc III chips. Sun plans to ship systems based on the Ultrasparc III, running at 600 megahertz, to customers by the end of this year. << Sun's Ultrasparc III is being designed at a facility in Palo Alto, Calif., called ''The Ranch.'' It's a building full of more than 1,000 computers used to crunch data for Sun's chip designs. A total of 2,500 Ultrasparc chips in these machines are running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They try to simulate the way the finished chip will work. <<We have hundreds of engineers running many tools on hundreds of machines. What we have done is we have created a software layer on top of these machines. The entire server ranch appears to a designer like a single machine. <<We are doing lots of chips. We're doing simulation on Ultrasparc (IV and) V <<So the chips in the servers at The Ranch are your current-generation devices running simulations of your next-generation chips.>>