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To: Roads End who wrote (20153)	3/6/1998 9:56:00 PM
From: Windseye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Yeah, I know. But "the grand stategy" is questionable in this market, for the next year or two...

To: Roads End who wrote (20153)	3/8/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 97611

"Windseye...The sub 1k pc is the thin client. We had to do it or let SUNW types win." Yes, but remember those pushing the Network computer - Sun, Oracle, IBM dont depend on PC clients for a living and could care less if PC vendors shot themselves in the head in a price war. Many of the ERP vendors are moving their applications to the web - Oracle always used to reccomend for a client server setup a very fast PC with lots of memory - now its a browser and no need to upgrade or administer thousands of unruly PC's.