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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18240)	3/27/1998 3:47:00 PM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Reggie, >IBM should by BeOS and AMD and churn out some real sub $800 >computers. It is a better use of the money than those worthless >share buybacks. IBM should buy BeOS and use its PowerPC processors which will blow Pentiums away and cost less per unit. My ruthless thoughts exactly: remember when I stated that IBM should play the game that MSFT is playing. Its simple: continually drop the price of IBM hardware until the DELL's, GATEWAY's, and COMPAQ's begin to lose money, at that point its only a matter of time... IBM could lose $3 billion a year grabbing market-share, could COMPAQ lose that much trying to maintain theirs? Of course, if you bundle BeOS and a set of development tools with each system for free it would not hurt. I think the market is now price-driven and would rather pay $650 for an IBM than $700 for a DELL. It would than be interesting to see how long it would take DELL, COMPAQ, etc. to file complaints of "dumping" with our fair government. Just a thought, Norm

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (18240)	3/27/1998 5:02:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Reg- like your good investment advice which goes largely ignored the business advice to IBM will likely be ignored too. I was was more interested in posting it as a historical item. For $69.95 you can turn a spare system into one of the first of hundred of millions of BE-OS's. It will take a while but it's something you can tell your grand children. In November 1982 I picked up S/N 000928 Columbia Data Products PC. Which was the first IBM PC clone (Compaq started delivering in December 1992). I think the BE OS is in the same category. Be may not make it but the Windows substitute will. be.com Harvey