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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (59220)	1/21/2005 8:57:28 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

>Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison took a load of flack for calling the PC "a ridiculous device" and predicting it would be supplanted by so-called thin clients -- terminals and other stripped-down appliances connected to central computers and applications. But if Ellison's timing was off, his assessment was not.> businessweek.com Now read this: Elmat 15 April 2004 <<The days of the PCs are counted. THIN CLIENTS running Windows CE –a box the size of a telephone set- are hooking a keyboard, mouse and monitor and a power cord.>> Message 20029759 Someone reading this would have predicted that IBM would sell its PC business to China's Lenovo for example. Or we can infer that MSFT heydays are over... I just love to be proved right!!!