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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59560)	3/17/2004 9:08:38 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 64865

IBM unveils Opteron workstation The new workstation will be the first Opteron workstation from a major vendor to ship in North America, said Sarang Ghatpande, an analyst at research company D.H. Brown Associates Inc. Last December, Fujitsu Ltd.'s European subsidiary, Fujitsu Siemens Computers (Holding) BV, unveiled a dual-processor Opteron workstation called the Celsius V810, which is not sold in the U.S. By being quick to market with the 64-bit Opteron system, IBM may be able to sell the workstation outside of the computer-aided design (CAD) market, where most of its workstations traditionally have been sold, Ghatpande said. The workstation should appeal to customers doing digital content creation, visualization, and seismic analysis, who want 64-bit systems that are less expensive than RISC offerings, he said. "There is basically a need for this. The traditional 64-bit solutions have been higher priced than what customers need." Ghatpande expects other hardware vendors to follow suit with Opteron workstations of their own. "I'm sure somebody else will do an Opteron-based workstation," he said. "It has a good value proposition for workstation applications." computerworld.com

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (59560)	3/17/2004 11:12:19 PM
From: Dinesh	Respond to of 64865

Lizzie While I agree that it's a highly contentious issue and the debate will always bring on far more sub-issues than merely the living cost disparities, the specific issue is not unknown to the government, esp. the IRS. IRS has long published acceptable per diem rates (lodging, food, transportation) by zip codes and cities, by major world cities and by countries for a long time. Every year it revisits this chart of rates so is isn't deadwood either. See this website: policyworks.gov You may not agree with the exact amounts in this chart but it is the relative cost that I would like to stay focused on, just to avoid that complex "living costs" trap. So it is not that our administration is entirely clueless. On the contrary I sometimes feel our beaurocracy is pretty good at collecting and collating an amazingly large set of data. Rather it is the policy makers whose motives I find suspect at times. There could have been some relief in the tax code but apparently not. The cynical view would be that that would have been perhaps unfair to the poor :-\| Regards Dinesh