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To: Kevin Rose who wrote (48351)	4/17/2002 1:24:43 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I think TCO is important, but that involves a lot more than initial capital cost for the machine. It involves things like being able to get service 24 x 7, continued parts availability after the box isn't any longer the latest-and-greatest, lights-out-management, a design that's been tested and qualified (rather than just slamming the motherboard du jour into a box), ability to scale up (and not just out), maintenance of binary compatibility (contrast IA-64), etc. JMHO. Charles Tutt (SM)

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (48351)	4/17/2002 1:56:44 PM
From: alydar	Respond to of 64865

hi mr. rose, 1. i think once we have a couple of good gdp quarters behind us, corporations will go to the best products to run their enterprise applications. too me, this is the oracle/sun offerring. they will reject the msft/dell proposal that this stuff is "good enough". they will want the best and have the confidence to pay for it because business should be good. 2. secondly, i am glad to hear that nextel, sprint, att wireless are seeing an uptick in demand. in fact, i read in this weeks business week that there is service conjestion building in the wireless area because of the lack of infrastructure. since sunw owns this market i think it will lead to good things. rocky.

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (48351)	4/17/2002 1:56:51 PM
From: David Kelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The new Wintel campaign: It is a myth that anyone needs 100% reliability, imagine what your customers and employees can do while they wait for their Wintel machine/network to come back up. 1. take a coffee break. 2. call home and check on the kids. 3. play computer games on their handheld. 4. browse want adds for new job. 5. call other companies and see if all Wintel machines are down. 6. call Scwab on their cell phone and see if the outage is affecting the companies stock price. 7. make the feng shui in their cubicle more harmonious. 8. ponder the enormity of time lost worldwide to poor reliability. 9. take another coffee break 10. call schwab and lessen your exposure to the companies stock in your 401k. <VGB> I have actually been taken out of the dental chair to assist getting my dentist's Wintel/network back up. My dentist, an amazing 78 year old geek with the coolest dental electronics, is on his third set of Windows dental software hoping to find some stability. It's not just the software, it's OSes that crash and burn with software errors. Reliability isn't something it's everything AFAIK. david