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To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (54910)	5/1/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

Harry, Tony Viola. Re: "I think we've beat this mainframe thing to death, especially on a thread whose subject is a semiconductor /PC/ workstation/server etc. company." I, for one, don't think so. As an Intel investor I want to know more about the "real" world of computing. Just an observation - Most of the IA64 crowd is far less likely to defend their technological bias in print or on boards like this vs. the mainframe crowd. I don't think they see a need to do it - I know I don't. For as long as I can rememeber the established technology guys were arguing with us new technology people about why we still needed them - Oracle vs. DB2, Unix vs. MVS, whatever. Every company I have worked at in the last 3 years is anxiously awaiting the enterprise wintel platform, mostly because of cost. These companies are: Dell, KLA instruments, Fujitsu, Silicon Graphics, Acuson, Amazon. (I was a consultant now I am a director sw engr at a software company). So draw your own conclusions - of course there is the possibility of a "parallel universe" that I have no exposure to where mainframes are king and are actually deflecting/displacing the wintel onslaught. Michelle

To: Harry Landsiedel who wrote (54910)	5/1/1998 3:22:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Harry, Re: "I, for one, don't think so. As an Intel investor I want to know more about the "real" world of computing. I can do this (continue talking about what you call the "real" world of computing). Sometimes, I feel like I must be perceived as overly defensive, i.e., in my opinion that the mainframe is not going off the cliff in a client server onslaught. Nobody's called me a dynosaur yet, but I think some are being nice. Re: "thanx for your very informative posts." You are welcome, and I will continue them when appropriate. Tony