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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:54:51 -0800
From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 04:41:04PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > More data from news.com.
> > 
> > Dell has 19% of the server market with $531M/quarter in sales[1] over
> > 212,750 machines per quarter[2].
> > 
> > That means that the average sale price for a server from Dell was $2495.
> > 
> > The average sale price of all servers from all companies is $9347.
> > 
> > I still don't see the big profits touted by the scaling fanatics, anyone
> > care to explain it?
> 
> Sigh. If you're so convinced that there's no money in larger systems,
> why don't you write to Sam Palmisano and explain to him the error of
> his ways? I'm sure IBM has absolutely no market data to go on ...

Numbers talk, bullshit walks.  Got shoes?
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