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To: Will Hou who wrote (20194)3/7/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Carl Wysocki  Read Replies (2) of 97611
 
Will, in response to your 2nd point ( I wish I knew how to quote),
I'll offer up my opinion. I'll give management credit for recognizing
that they can't ultimately succeed just by pushing iron out the door
at low cost, and really needed to offer the customer a complete
range of sales and support services in addition to their hardware sales
to distinguish themselves from the iron mongers and be competitive
in the high end server area with SUNW, HWP and IBM.

I'm not certain there is any analogy with SGI/Cray and CPQ/DEC.
The DEC acquisition fills a void in CPQ's ability to deal in the
high end of the market and I'm not sure what SGI really got out
of Cray. SUNW got an awful lot when SGI sold what is now the E10000 to Sun for a song (and, perhaps a little tap dance), but
that's a different story.

Carl
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