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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (129875)	8/9/2001 11:59:05 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

It's not that nobody will buy any more tech, or that nobody still needs to upgrade. It's just that imo the near term advances in tech will be incremental not head-turning, I disagree. I believe the largest advances are just beginning. We should see huge differences in the net year or two. Co's know that the latest productivity report was a fluke, and that they must get more output from what they've already bought the last few years. I glanced at that debate here. I admit to lacking time but I do not agree with many who believe productivity has not increased. In fact, I believe it to have increased a lot. The story of Rambus bears this out- the enabling ram/bus technology for ever-faster processing speeds of the future maybe, yet the ROI is simply not there for 98% of end users. Rambus is an isolated issue and one of a technology that was heavily debated starting many years ago. I do not see that speed issue as being the type of improvement for better productivity which explains the lack on ROI. I have tried to conduct some personal business through the internet, and it never works. So I have concluded that for most businesses, interactive email-based CS and other WEB-based applications are simply money-losing propositions. I do not know what you have tried. I believe the increase in broadband use is making the use of the internet far more profitable. Let's be real and agree that dial-up access will never cut it for business.