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To: Kai-Uwe who wrote (9658)	11/26/1997 8:51:00 AM
From: hpeace	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

KU, as usual to post and find things to the heart of the matter. I'm sure some think you could be me..but, then they say.. No..it can't be Bec. Kai's spelling and syntax is perfect<gg> I'm sure there are some...but, I've never seen a dell at someone's home..the dellheads have them...oooopss! there was one home pc I saw. Micheal had me over last month. He has a dell.<gggggg>

To: Kai-Uwe who wrote (9658)	11/26/1997 9:12:00 AM
From: Rich Goldsmith	Respond to of 97611

Kai-Uwe, A couple of other things to factor in, our current third pc was a sub-zero cpq. My wife just wanted a low cost machine to do word processing and to access AOL (she was getting tired of the contstant changing of the windows interface on the 'family' machine, as I downloaded about every beta that was coming out of MSFT, plus she's internet challenged). She would not have purchased a PC if it cost more than 1K total before sales tax. My current second pc was a cpq portable. The hard dive went out (OK, so it got droped). I called cpq, they said take it to a local retail store for repair. Took it to the local retail store. A week later, the local retail store still had not gotten around to even looking at it! Called cpq again on Mon. Had mailer in NY on Tue. and forwarded to cpq repair store in OH. Had computer back on Thu. Was I happy? Will I ever buy anything other than cpq?? Did I buy stock??? Nice equation, but cpq got my respect the old fashion way -- they earned it! Regards, Rich

To: Kai-Uwe who wrote (9658)	11/29/1997 2:19:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

You apparently did not read it critically since you are a CPQ stockholder.

To: Kai-Uwe who wrote (9658)	12/2/1997 8:44:00 PM
From: Spots	Respond to of 97611

Kai, I appreciate your informed posts (sorry for response to old message but I'm just catching up on the thread). Regardless (almost) of the degree of cannibalization, IMHO, is the generation of future customers from the market penetration. The camel's nose is going under a heck of a lot of tents, whether or not these buyers would conceivably have bought a more expensive nose or not. This is, of course, a few ounces of my speculation. But I find it more compelling than 400 pounds of "cannibalization" analysis. Regards, Spots