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To: tcmay who wrote (173647)	3/19/2003 9:14:28 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Tim, RE: "You said in an earlier post that you are getting along with older machines." I never get along with older machines - and still retain the knickname, Speed Queen, at work. I have some projects on hold until I upgrade to faster systems, which is frustrating me. Go start a company and you'll find you'll decide to upgrade other people's systems first. But to get to your point, we ramped our company in 2000 and hired a lot of people, which is when 'most' of the equipment was purchased. After that, we grew piece-wise and keep adding equipment (buying equipment never seems to stop, especially when some of it is offloaded to employees). I loosely say the last time we bought was in 2000, even though we continue to have incremental purchases. But at this point, we're looking at so many incremental purchases, you could almost say it'll be a major overhaul, which I won't offload onto folks. RE: "Weird, as I thought you had told us how your group/company needed to upgrade to the latest and fastest machines." It absolutely does, which is why employees have been making their own purchases in order to have the latest & greatest. Particularly in order to service bleeding edge technology. And we do upgrade, but never enough, especially in a financially conservative environment where you've got terrorism, war, and I guess now a world-wide viral flu. We have 802.11b in parts of our office, which is why I don't understand why Intel seems to be taking the position wi-fi won't be tackled near-term into SMBs, but I suspect they're waiting for compatibility with the other 802.11's later this summer, etc. One commercial project I worked on, took about 7-10 years before it really became mainstream with consumers. Commercial tends to lead consumer, which is why I love working with technologies for commercial deployment - you get to be way ahead of the curve. It's exciting to be ahead of the curve, but frankly, sometimes I wish I were born 100 years later into the future. There's so many things I would love to see deployed now and do now. But with the exception of the boom, things tend to move slowly in high-tech. Regards, Amy J PS WannaBMW's post tickled an idea that we're incorporating into our corporate demo.