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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (77587)	3/13/2000 1:28:00 AM
From: BGR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

SB, Open mouth, insert foot ... Servers do the bulk of all business computing. Perhaps you can only get what you see and hence are confusing absolute numbers with use in computing. Spreadsheets on desktops (contrary to what Windows 98 ads may have convinced you) is not what modern business computing is about ... Don't believe me? Ask a large etailer like AMZN. What sort of machines do you think they have been using? x486 with 4 MB of main memory? ;-) Remember the EBAY fiasco? -BGR.