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To: George Gotch who wrote (39409)	4/28/1998 4:45:00 PM
From: MichaelW	Respond to of 176387

Imagine 6 months from now a new app comes out that requires a faster processor, how will you look to your boss then?

To: George Gotch who wrote (39409)	4/28/1998 5:05:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Your response suggests you are a "novice" at PC purchasing and pricing. The initial hardware cost is just a small fraction of the total ownership, maintenance, upgrade ect. costs. You should at least notice immediately the difference in chassis design between the no-names and Dell. Dell's tool-less chassis save companies big bucks over the long haul. Do your new no-name PC's provide legacy driver support? Who's installing all of the software? Your operation probably only needs 5-10 PC's... correct? You may skate by being penny wise and pound foolish... maybe not. Mistakes at small companies don't get magnified the way they do at operations like Ford or Boeing. MEATHEAD

To: George Gotch who wrote (39409)	4/28/1998 6:45:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

Well George let me see...oh yeah, I will let the boys down in Austin make that kind of decisions as they are in the trenches and seem to know what they are doing, you and I on the other hand definitely are not,your CIS management experience notwithstanding. I am just happy to be a shareholder and benefit from their experience and seemingly wise decisions thus far and I have the money to prove my point.The minute I think they are screwing around with my money down in Austin that is when I quit being a shareholder of the company in the mean while why don't we just let them run the company as they seem to know what they are doing,you with me George or you still think you can go down to Austin and run DELL better than Michael Dell ????

To: George Gotch who wrote (39409)	4/28/1998 10:48:00 PM
From: gmccon	Respond to of 176387

>> I was a CIS manager and had to buy 50 PC's for my company << George, Did you get a quote from DELL for your whopping 50 unit system, which I assume included a server? Sub 1K PC refers to home end-users. A 50 unit office server set-up from DELL is like selling a carton of cigarettes for them, George. Chump change. They'd have that order boxed and shipped the next day at the going rate of any other company with a like guarantee and price. And the DELL reputation riding on it. 50 PC's? Please. "In 1998 alone, Galileo plans to deploy more than 15,000 Dell...":http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/980421/il_galileo_1.html You guys stuck in the rut of individual PC's (competing in a sub market) don't know what time it is. DELL is so far ahead of that game I'm ashamed to have to tell you. George, we're talking servers, fibre channel data storage, DLT tape libraries... Complete business solutions that will rival CPQ/Tandem/DEC, and you're talking some geek down the street trying to save $400 on a sub-standard home system with some stuff that'll break in a year. And oh, boy, it was only $999! George, please go to Yahoo news, type DELL, and read back a couple of months so you won't be tempted to show your ignorance again. How about this one today, DELL and Intel getting together to "Enhance Future Enterprise Computing and Internet Technologies": biz.yahoo.com Intel and DELL are conspiring to run away with the show, George, and you're worried about some geek's sub 1k PC. Or was your post meant for the MUEI thread? Greg