Dell gets to introduce latest Xeon MPs first

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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:53:55 -0500, Yousuf Khan wrote:

> Dell gets first jump on Potomac/Cranford Xeon MPs - Computer Business Review
> "If you are the fastest growing server maker in the world, if you don't
> bash Itanium, and if you don't sell rival Opteron processors, then
> apparently you do get to pre-announce the latest Xeon MP server
> processors from Intel. And that is precisely what Dell did yesterday
> along with top executives from Intel and database maker Oracle. "
> http://www.cbronline.com/article_f [...] FF601688D8
>
> Yousuf Khan

After reading the article it seems that Dell is getting smacked around in
the 4 way market. Who would trust Dell to set up a grid, heaven forbid a
cluster? What makes this so special, then a white box 4 way AMD solution,
or even an IBM solution.

After looking through some of IBM's stuff, I think it will come down to
service, if a company is really looking into grid computing, then service
will be a big advantage. I also do not see these systems going head to
head with a 4 way AMD box. I still think a white box AMD 4 way solution
would be ideal, take the Sun 4 way Opteron solution found on this site,

http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CE [...] tid=116125

compare it to what dell wants for a current PowerEdge 6600:

http://configure.us.dell.com/dells [...] 0PAD&s=biz

this is before the service contracts, and other important items that big
companies want. Now I can see why Dell is so worried. I need to be in the
contract service business, I can see why BillG makes such remarks as
hardware should be free, and only software costs.

Gnu-Raiz