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DELL 119.41-2.7%Nov 19 3:59 PM EST

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To: rudedog who wrote (130907)6/4/1999 9:54:00 AM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (2) of 176387
 
r.,

Your doomsday scenario strikes me as highly unlikely.

IBM remembers more than a decade of battling the Justice department. It was an unfair fight. IBM's legal department had far better funding than Justice; and IBM's board had far better political connections. ;-)

Further, IBM would not do anything that could even remotely allow it to be caught doing predatory pricing, IMO.

Second, CPQ picked up a dog in DEC. If CPQ doesn't get profits from the PC sector, it's toast. It may well be toast anyway.

I agree that nobody wants a price war; and I don't see any of the main players behaving like the DRAM industry any time soon. The only real threat of that behaviour, IMO, could have come from NEC-Packard Bell. But they didn't have a worthwhile product, and I don't know if that's changed.

FWIW,
Ian.
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