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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16723)	5/29/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

"...DEC kicks Sun's butt on most benchmarks with less CPU's and they have the best clustering technology on the planet. " hmmm...so that explains why DEC was foundering for years and sold itself out to a screwdriver shop like Compaq which will NEVER recover from trying to digest it. Maybe Sun should consider selling itself to Gateway.. James, your stubborness on Sun is pitiful from an investors perspective since youve missed a historic run in the stock in 6 months but your lame attempts to club Sun over the head are becoming less and less defensible (yeah, i know those 8 way IA-32's are coming out soon, workstation soon to be overrun, shhh..no one tell those idiot analysts about Intel...)

To: Stormweaver who wrote (16723)	5/29/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Now James, just to humour you i checked out the TPC home pages (www.tpc.org) and i guess your reffering to the 92 Alpha CPU's that were required to achieve 102K TPC-C's using a Clustered configuration . If you bothered looking (try a search on Industry Best) Sun achieved the Record 115K TPC-C's using a SINGLE system with 64 UltraSparc CPU's- i.e - a Single BOX at a much cheaper cost than DEC. No matter how good DEC's clustering technology is it isnt nearly as manageable as a single SMP system - so i would have to buy multiple DEC boxes, string them together with DEC cluster software and then have to buy High Availability software from Oracle - Or I buy the single box from Sun...decisions, decisions..