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To: Tony Viola who wrote (121321)	12/8/2000 12:07:19 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 186894

Tony, <<<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? >>> First of all the F500 types only employ a fraction of the US work force. Second, Jack only acquired his epiphany recently (last 3 years?) when his wife "opened his window" when she put him onto a Yahoo message board and Jack was hooked on the Internet while lurking on the GE thread where the GE business model was being discussed. The GE "Internet Vision" apparently has not been translated into an action plan down in the brick and mortar bowels of GE industrial remains. If that is so, imagine what is going on in some of the other less visionary F500's. Mary

To: Tony Viola who wrote (121321)	12/8/2000 12:11:16 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

5 year old Pentium 90s (and a lot of 'em have 32 MB of RAM, almost all have at least 16MB) surf the 'net just fine. I really don't think that you're putting an employee that is responsible primarily for Excel and Word documents at much of a disadvantage. And I think that there's a whole lot of lower end Pentiums in Fortune 500 shops than you think. The key to me is the speed of upgrade to Win2000. And that upgrade is going a whole heck of a lot slower than Microsoft ever expected. And if Linux ever gets so that it can scale well, the upgrade might never occur.