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To: HerbVic who wrote (6512)	11/23/1997 10:12:00 AM
From: Perry	Respond to of 213173

<Date: Fri, 21 Nov 97 12:03:05 -0900 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Apple Will Donate 10$ of Each Mac OS 8 Sale This announcement is from: Apple PR Apple Computer Inc. announced today that it will donate U.S. $10 for every consumer purchase of Mac OS 8 software before Jan. 15, 1998 to one of the following charities: The Humane Society of the United States, which promotes the humane treatment of animals of all kinds; Second Harvest Food Bank, which collects and distributes more than 500 million pounds of food to people in need each year; or The Make-A-Wish Foundation, which fulfills the special wishes of children under the age of 18 who have life-threatening illnesses. All contributions will be made in the name of the consumers who participate in the upgrade program. Since its introduction in late July 1997, more than two million Mac OS 8 units have been shipped worldwide. The software is available for an estimated retail price of U.S. $99, while an upgrade version costs an estimated retail price of U.S. $69. Mac OS 8 is the latest operating system software release for the Macintosh--and the most significant Mac OS upgrade since 1984. Mac OS 8 also represents the latest milestone in the Company's operating system strategy which includes the delivery of ongoing Mac OS releases and system updates, as well as Rhapsody, the code name for Apple's next-generation operating system. Mac OS 8 includes a multitude of new features and technologies to offer customers an improved user experience with increased productivity and efficiency, greatly simplified Internet access and leading-edge tools, state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities, and enhanced performance and stability. For additional information on Mac OS 8, please visit the Mac OS 8 website at: <http://www.macos.apple.com/macos8/>. --------------------------------------------------- Are sales and earnings that good at Apple that we can give away money? Maybe this bodes well for earnings this quarter, or maybe not! Perry

To: HerbVic who wrote (6512)	11/23/1997 8:02:00 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Oracle is running a ton of slick, expensive, ads in prime time pumping people to go out and buy a "net pc" on which Oracle software shines. What net pc are they talking about? I get Dell ads all the time and I don't see any net pcs being advertised. I see tv ads all the time but I don't ever see net pcs being advertised. In short, I don't see anybody advertising net pcs anywhere. I called CompUSA and they don't know what I am talking about. It seems that oracle is spending a lot of bucks to tell people to go and buy a product that is not commonly available. Houson, we got a problem. Larry's taking a another spacewalk. The only thing I can figure is that Oracle did plan to have net pc's being sold at this time (perhaps with Apple?) and it did not work out at the last moment (Steve's surprise announcement?). Maybe the announcement was pulled because Pacific Rim economies are in the process of tanking big time and you can not depend on anything from that area (your supplier may be bankrupt tomorrow). This crisis will be good in the long run (internationl money fund will take over and kick ass) but it will absolute hell for the next few months as they take apart all the financial institutions and discover what crooks they are. Any opinions?