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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (163071)	12/5/2000 11:23:28 AM
From: edamo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

dj....not to burst your bubble, but the whole of the eec is not as steeped in usa goods as you believe....they are rather protectionist and their tariffs for non eec members reflect same.... in fact our leading trade partners are in the following order: canada, mexico, japan, united kingdom, south korea, and germany.....obvious that you have one quasi and one full blown eec member..... you really have to do a finite evaluation of our exports, and you will find that they are skewed not to finished goods as much as to raw materials, bulk goods, and components...conversely we are an on balance importer of finished goods...

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (163071)	12/5/2000 11:27:02 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 176387

Tuesday December 5, 9:00 am Eastern Time Press Release The MET Puts 5,000 Years of Art Into 700 Gigabytes of Storage Dell to Provide Servers and Storage for Largest Museum in the Western Hemisphere ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2000--Dell (Nasdaq:DELL - news), a leading provider of products and services for Internet infrastructures, today announced it is providing server and storage systems for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum is consolidating and centralizing a number of different servers onto a single platform to provide authentication and application services to all employees connected to its local area network. The Dell(tm) PowerEdge(tm) 8450 servers and Dell PowerVault(tm) 650 and 630 storage systems will be used to deliver client-server and browser-based applications to more than 1,100 system users at the museum as well as to archive and manage the museum's vast collection of works of art from around the world. ``All network, application and database servers will be consolidated onto the Dell platform,'' said Michael Belkin, chief technology officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ``With this solution, we can address current needs and plan for the future needs of our users for flexible application delivery and a reliable, scalable data repository.'' The first application to reside on the new platform will be the museum's collection management system that is capable of housing all aspects of information about a work of art. The Met previously ran different servers from a multitude of locations around its 2 million-square-foot facility, making maintenance and backup difficult to administer. The servers were becoming obsolete, the processors were not powerful enough and the backup systems were overloaded. The new platform will permit the museum to consolidate the management of its repository of more than 2 million objects of art, including text, static images, digital and 3D images and eventually streaming audio and video using 700 gigabytes of storage expandable to 4.3 terabytes. ``The Met needed scalability and reliability to digitally preserve these extraordinary works of art,'' said Steve Larned, vice president and general manager for Dell's Preferred Accounts Division. ``Dell is providing the Met with equipment that will allow it to grow well into the future and provide it with the dependability upon which we have built our business. This is an exciting endeavor and Dell is proud to be a part of the team.'' About The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City's Central Park is one of the world's greatest art centers and is visited by more than 5 million people each year. Founded in 1870 by American businessmen, financiers, and leading artists and thinkers, the museum holds collections of greater than 2 million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture in every category of art in every known medium. In addition to presenting 30 exhibitions per year, the not-for-profit museum provides education programs for visitors and educators, research and conservation facilities, fellowships and loans of works of art. The Museum's Web site address is located at www.metmuseum.org. About Dell Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL - news) is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $30 billion for the past four quarters, and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their Internet infrastructures. The company ranks No. 56 on the Fortune 500, No. 210 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 3 on the Fortune ``most admired'' lists of companies. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.dell.com. Dell, PowerEdge and PowerVault are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Fortune 500 is a registered trademark of Time Inc. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others.

To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (163071)	12/5/2000 11:50:28 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

The greedy central bankers, who managed to suck an extra 1.5 % (effectively far more) out of the apparently bloated savings of the general populous in the interest of getting their "fair share" of the pool, have perhaps come to their senses and realized they have poisoned the golden goose. Their basic precept being that no companies could have progressed, nor the present economy exist, without their blessings and loans. This ignores and denigrates the fact they were using the common mans savings and investment dollars to do the job they claim all credit for. I believe many phone calls and screams have come from large investors and funds who basicly said, " Screw your bank profits, you are killing us out here with talks of tightening farthur, we have lost 30% (or 50%) on investments because of your actions." Other complaints probably flowed in from members of the new Administration because the Federal income from taxes and esp capital gains are going to be sharply down in 2001 as another poster noted. We already had a hard landing, now its up to the bankers to prevent crashing into the barricades at the end of the runway. Sig