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Subject: Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 16:16, Larry McVoy wrote:
> In terms of the money and in terms of installed seats, the small Linux
> machines out number the 4 or more CPU SMP machines easily 10,000:1.

While I totally agree with your points, I want to mention that
although this ratio is true, the exact opposite ratio applies to
the price of the service contracts a company can land with the big
machines :-)

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