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To: John E. Rylander who wrote (9641)	10/26/1997 2:28:00 PM
From: William L. Oppenheim	Respond to of 70976

We agree on this. IBM would not give up the mainfram mentality and it almost did them in. Now it may turn out that they were correct all along--just a decade or so ahead of their time.

To: John E. Rylander who wrote (9641)	10/26/1997 2:52:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

John, you said >>More and more intelligence is moving on to servers. Voice will change this (someone in an earlier post said it will take another 10 years? Don't you believe it<< Please elaborate. Do you mean due to voice, intelligence will move back to PCs? Do you mean it will take less than 10 years? I think in 5 years voice will be as common as spread sheets. Strictly my guess. You also said >>I wonder if the MS monopoly isn't slowing innovation in some of the more routine apps<< It certainly is! And not only in the more routine applications. Some innovators never make it out the gate, because they are intimidated by the MS behemoth. GM