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To: Brendan McNamee who wrote (5123)	1/21/1998 10:06:00 AM
From: syborg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

What sort of volume do you need to purchase to get to the ~$700 p/workstation? syborg

To: Brendan McNamee who wrote (5123)	1/21/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: Steve C.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

To: Brendan McNamee who wrote (5123)	1/22/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: paul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19079

Brendan - i noticed a change in NCI's web page - for a long time Oracle was talking about the sub 500 Network Computer - now there web page links to RCA which sells a set top box which is pretty much like a Web-TV, great!! . I understand that at higher prices you can get what was promised to be an NC - a system unit (no hard drive), monitor, network connections and a server - hmm.... how is mikey from those Oracle commercials going to set this thing up? don't get me wrong - I belive in thin clients - IBM and Sun are selling them with major improvements being built in, but Oracle is playing a bait and switch game because they overpromised and underdelivered. This is a big embarrasment to Oracle/NCI which severly undermines the credibility of Network Computers - i think Larry's big ego is to blame and the lapdog culture at Oracle that can't say no to Larry.