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To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (3450)	11/5/1997 2:50:00 PM
From: Jim Davison	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Alexis -- how are SGI employees holding up? Do you think the layoffs and bad press and loss of McCracking are having a serious effect on morale and productivity? To all: It appears we are seeing a noticable increase in press releases from the company. At least it is an indication that they are getting more aggressive about marketing. Motley Fool's latest negative assessment today won't help anything, but their analysis contains what I suspect is a wrong assessment. SGI's good 4rth Quarter was probably more than a blip -- I don't think revenue is in free-fall. They will probably have some better quarters ahead. Also the new server technology will probably be successful in the next few quarters. One thing worries me -- is all this negative hype scaring away customers from SGI machines? --JD

To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (3450)	11/5/1997 3:38:00 PM
From: Klaus B. Biggers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

>Sure. Then pray tell me why the loads of cash at Microsoft haven't >brought us a better Microsoft OS sooner, if engineering competence > can be bought? Well.. seems it created a good enough OS to give SGI a run for their money. One so good, SGI is adopting it. -klaus

To: Alexis Cousein who wrote (3450)	11/8/1997 12:18:00 PM
From: Patrick Gainer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

>>Engineering competence, like a computer, is easily bought. >Sure. Then pray tell me why the loads of cash at Microsoft >haven't brought us a better Microsoft OS sooner, if engineering >competence can be bought? You are kidding right? All OS projects take time to mature. MVS is virtually crashproof but it's had 20 years of development. Unix is getting better but at least some implementations (including recent versions of Irix) were almost notorious for their poor quality. You probably remember the debacle with Best? If you can discuss this rationally (and I've not seen any evidence on this forum that the SGI employees are anything other than rabid boosters), you'll describe an objective measure with which we can benchmark the MS operating systems with others to answer charges like yours. Pat