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To: Dulane U. Ponder who wrote (23914)	4/5/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Nicholas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Dulane & Thread, HOW THE 'PC KILLER' WAS HUMBLED businessweek.com "For a device that Oracle Corp. CEO Lawrence J. Ellison extolled as a PC killer when he conceived it in October, 1995, the dive is breathtaking. Market researcher Dataquest Inc. estimates that 144,000 NCs were sold last year, way off its 400,000 original forecast." Here's the first positive reason I have heard for the PC makers to create a sub1-K market and that's to significantly hamper the growth of NC's. Can anyone consider what would have happened to the PC biz if Oracle and Sun actually shipped a significant portion of NC's. Would we be complaining about the fact PC makers didn't create a sub1-K market to combat the NC's? Comments anyone? Nicholas