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To: jim kelley who wrote (27891)	1/19/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176388

Jim re: DELL is ideally positioned to take advantage Another reason I stay long. Dell is ideally positioned to take advantage of just about any technological shift. Did you see this? currents.net Servers can be configured many different ways so it's hard to pinpoint what server centric really means. Servers can serve apps or just liscences where the apps remain on the desktop. Servers can also take on the computational burden and just pipe the display back to the desktop as well... I don't expect this to become a standard operating model anytime soon. You can shift the storage and MIPs/BIPs burden anywhere you like but these needs still continue to increase. Increasing network traffic is not the entire answer. The reality is that the desktop will still require processing power, memory and storage in the server centric model. Maybe more memory and less storage but it's not radically different from todays desktop PC's in terms of raw hardware requirements. The key is to be able to install and deploy software upgrades from one location and stop users from mucking up their system configurations with renegade hardware and software. This is where athe big savings comes from. The latest from IDC on TCO says this: ..For this study IDC defined as a client/server environment one in which the majority of heavily used applications reside on a division or company server and company-wide servers, and 50% or more of documents are exchanged electronically. The environment is networked by multiple PC LANs that are connected, often over a remote WAN connection. When costs across these three environments are considered, the PC LAN environment is revealed to be the most expensive environment to operate, based on annual cost per PC. At nearly $10,400 of operational and support costs annually per system, this environment is more than twice as expensive on a per-PC basis than the standalone environment, which shows a per-PC cost of about $4,800 annually. The PC LAN environment is also more than three times as expensive as the client/server environment, which shows a per-PC cost of about $3,300 annually (see Table 1). Table 1 Support & Management Costs By Computing Environment Annual Cost Per PC Standalone $4,766 PC LAN $10,376 Client/Server $3,306 The cost of the hardware is almost irrelevant isn't it. MEATHEAD