Messages in this thread |  | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: Server shipments [was Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call] | Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:02:28 -0800 |
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:17:01 PST, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:11:21PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > > What part of "all servers from all companies" did you not understand? > > > > Average price from Dell: $2495 > > Average price overall: $9347 > > > > Conclusion ... Dell makes cheaper servers than average, presumably smaller. > > So how many CPUs do you think you get in a $9K server?
Did the numbers track add-on prices, as opposed to base server? Most servers are sold with one CPU and lots of extra slots. Need to dig down to the add-on data to find upgrades to more CPUs and more memory in the field (and more disk drives).
> Better yet, since you work for IBM, how many servers do they ship in a year > with 16 CPUs?
Proprietary data, unfortunately. And I'm not sure if even internally the totals are rolled up as pSeries, xSeries, zSeries, iSeries, etc. and broken down by linux/aix/NT/VM/etc. Nor do most big companies efficiently track the size of a machine at a customer site after hardware upgrades (I know for Sequent this in particular was a painful problem - sold a two way and supported an 18-way machine later).
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