Racks vs. pile of PCs

[Dean Johnson]

On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 21:06, fooler wrote:
> 
>     would you like to consider *blade server* for your evaluation?
>     http://www.nexcom.com.tw/
> 

Can anybody comment on when blades are going to come much closer
(relatively, of course) to converging with commodity boxes or atleast
competitive with rackmount systems? From what I have seen, albeit my
info is a bit out of date, blade servers are often well off the bleeding
edge for performance and well beyond the front edge of pricing.

	-Dean