RE: IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server
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Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:13:12 -0400
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  7. Re: IBM Unleashes World's Most Powerful Server (Darrell A Martin)

"The p5-595 offered 38% better price performance
than the HP machine -- $2.98 per transaction versus
$4.82 per transaction."

At "4,016,222 transactions per minute" the p5-595 would cost over $718 
million per *hour* to operate.


Well, yeah... but...

That's $432 million per hour better than the competition.

How can you _not_ afford it?

Tom Liotta

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