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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (125521)	10/7/2000 8:27:13 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579897

Thread, Rambus getting sued........ semibiznews.com "Infineon is citing pre-existing invention and art for both synchronous DRAMs and Direct RDRAM before Rambus ever applied for its patents." steve

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (125521)	10/7/2000 2:24:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579897

Ted, why do you meet so many Germans? Do you have family connections here? Andreas, They are like locusts....they are everywhere!! LOL....just kidding. Seriously, when I went to Europe the second time, I went to Germany and it was like going home...and no, I am not of German descent. I left some friends in Paris and was supposed to be gone only a week but stayed for a month...my friends were p*ssed. When I left München, I was homesick...for Germany......go figure! And ever since, I have met Germans everywhere. Thorsten and Pat have become very good friends and we had a great time last weekend. I have the same opinion. It's very important IMO to drive the unification process ahead, a common currency is only the first step. I believe all countries in Europe will profit if they work together instead of only looking for their very own advantages. At least this is the theory... Yes, and when Europe gets up to speed, it will provide even better competition for the US, and then the US will become better. What do you think of my supposition that we may have bottomed or nearly bottomed off the US employment report? The fear of late is that the US is set up for a hard landing....but the employment report refutes all the recent evidence of such a landing almost single handily...so, in a sense, its a contrarian indicator. I say that because job growth was good while wage increases were modest.....a great combo. ted

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (125521)	10/7/2000 10:51:48 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1579897

RE: the Euro The problem is that the various European economies are not in lock step and are in different places in their respective business cycles. This results in it being more lucrative for some countries to adopt the Euro than others. In general, the benefits out weigh the costs, but it is hard to see sometimes. This is the problem with a common currency, in the US we deal with this problem all the time. The various states are very diverse, my wife, who is from Germany (born in Hannover, grew up in Cuxhaven), is continually amazed by this. The various state economies are often close in synchronization, but there are times when there is a disconnect. When that happens, you tend to get a lot of people who wind up moving from state to state. That is a downside, especially from the European point of view. Another downside is that there tends to be a homoginization of products offered to the market. It is not total, there are rather significant regional variations that you see, but the tendency to have uniform, national products exists. This tendency is growing here, even 20 years ago there were grocery items that were common in some areas that you just couldn't find in others. the advantages of unification, well I don't have to tell you that.

To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (125521)	10/11/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579897

Andreas, How do you like this merde?!! Mikey Dell sounds like he is ready to pack up his toys and go home...you guys better be careful. ____________________________________________________________ Dell: 'When will Europeans embrace technology' By: Drew Cullen Posted: 11/10/2000 at 09:51 GMT Michael Dell, chief executive of Dell Computer, attributed the failure of European companies to "embrace technology fully" as a factor in the company's Q3 sales shortfall, the FT reports. Speaking at a conference in Madrid yesterday, Dell said: "The market has not been as strong as we would have liked. When do I see it changing? Well when do European businesses embrace technology fully. Technology is the esssential ingredient in the modern capitalist system." There were only half as many PCs in Europe as there are in the US, a smaller economy, he noted. Cheeky monkey. Dell is simply not performing as well as it thought it would in Europe - Gartner and IDC have not changed their PC European sales growth forecasts for 2000 - down on the bumper years of 1998 and 1999 but still a respectable 11-13 per cent. HP and Compaq say their European sales remain on target. Maybe the Dell direct model does not play quite as well in some European countries as it does in the US, or the UK for that matter. Maybe Dell's reliance on corporate sales - it is the world's biggest reseller, effectively - has not helped it achieve its targets at a time of a marked sales slowdown in the corporate sector (a trend noted by all the major PC dealerships). Maybe the lack of an Athlon-powered machine was unhelpful for retail consumer sales over the summer - AMD is after all much more popular in Europe than in the US. Maybe Europeans simply prefer Compaq and HP. ®