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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56486)	9/26/2001 2:39:44 PM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

You are right about MS having the majority of code. I know we have a few really large excel spreadsheets around. I might be able to come up with a really meaningful excel bench by using those. On the other hand, most corporations don't bench their in-house apps, they just trust their vendor ( Dell,HP, Compaq & Intel ) when they are told that the latest box they're buying will be an improvement. I have to tell you that when I saw our bench results I felt cheated by Dell&Intel. That's not a nice feeling to push upon your customers. I now don't want to have anything to do with Dell&Intel. They are lucky that purchasing decisions are not up to me.... Constantine

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (56486)	9/27/2001 4:53:48 AM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 275872

Wanna_bmw, Re: 'I'd say the majority of commercial code comes from Microsoft.' I'd say that if you said it we'd disagree. I'd say that a lot of consumer code comes from Microsoft, but that most commercial software is custom code. The company I work for uses the Microsoft Office products(less Access, Oracle is our DB of choice), and many PCs and PC Servers run MS OS(We've lots of servers that aren't X-86s & thus don't run MSFT OS), but we have very little business code from Microsoft. tgptndr