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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121318)	12/8/2000 11:46:13 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, time you took a break. Take a vacation. Go back to New Hampshire, Maine, or Mass - in your old stomping grounds and visit some of the old factories and warehouses. Mary, I'd love to, but I missed the foliage season. Keep in mind that I keep saying Fortune 500 type companies when I estimate the class of PC that business is using. I know the mom and pop shops may struggle with a P133 still. 486, no, no new OS will run well on it, and the 4 - 8 Megs it may have on it. The Fortune 500 types, believe it or not, are going ecommerce, business to business big time for sourcing and procurement activities. I've heard CEOs at GE and Boeing say over and over that they must use the Internet, Intranets, or die. These are the F500s I mean. Do you mean to tell me they are going to saddle their employees with 5 year old PCs when they say they're betting the company on the Internet and ebusiness? So, I'm a Si Valley bigot y'all say, but the F500 companies, last I checked, are spread out all over the country. Tony

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121318)	12/8/2000 11:52:36 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: there are applications running on Netware 3.?? software with coax cables connecting 16 ws to 3Com hubs in a LAN running on 286 servers!!! I've seen Novell servers of that vintage (Netware 286 / Netware 386) go a year and a half between reboots. It's just another reminder that I/O, not processor power, is what matters for file servers. But the drives and power supplies of those machines are well beyond their MTBF expected life. I hope anyone running on such a system has a very flexible backup - because finding someting to restore to after a failure in such a system may not be easy. Regards, Dan

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121318)	12/8/2000 12:47:23 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Respond to of 186894

Mary, Competition is the driving force leading many small companies to upgrade their previously adequate technology. A personal example - In my little office I have an old 486, a 450P3 & a 750P3 laptop. I am on DSL and have a lan. The 486, which I bought in 1992 topped out it's usefulness for me in 1998 and I'm pushing the PII now. It's about productivity and multitasking. At the current rate of technological development, I expect to pay about $3k every three years to maintain optimal personal productivity. In my business, information flow is what keeps me productive. The better that flow, the better I do. Barry@certainlynotevenafortune1000000company.com