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To: Eli Lauris who wrote (373)	11/9/1996 10:50:00 AM
From: Shibumi	of 14451

> Would you buy a workstation from a vendor who engages in this type of deception ? Two questions: 1) When did SGI let their customers about the R10000 debacle? (Note: I read what the press releases said -- what I'm asking for is the reality of what occurred -- oh, and we're on our third or fourth set of R10000's now). 2) When did the SGI sales force let its customers and potential customers know that a new family of machines were going to be released which would make some of their systems obsolete. By "obsolete" I mean not only in performance, but with no defined upgrade paths. I do not know if Integraph engages in deception (I'm not a customer of Integraph); but as an SGI customer, I sure feel screwed by recent events. If I was an engineer at SGI, what I'd be asking myself isn't so much whether SGI has a lead on the Wintel world (it certainly does in high-end graphics) -- rather, I'd ask myself how many customers will gladly jump over to Wintel as soon as the relentless march of Moore's law and technologies such as AGP from Intel allow them to do so. Mark

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