I just got done comparing SPECMarks (on spec.org) between Sun's AMD entry level servers versus similarly configured UltraSPARCs versus desktop AMD based machines. Sun's AMD machines are twice as fast as their UItraSPARCs, for approximately the same price. What a hoot. Rick ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly