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To: Greg Jung who wrote (4842)	5/12/1998 11:13:00 AM
From: Justin Banks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Greg - If your main goal at work is to get the office computerized, with a finite budget, then buying SGI's for everyone would surely get you fired. Buying an SGI for an inventory lookup that is used twice/hour would also fit in that category. SGI is not a full spectrum supplier. OTOH, if you're looking to replace lots of systems with a single system that can be scaled easily to accomodate your possible future needs, SGI is a serious contender. -justinb

To: Greg Jung who wrote (4842)	5/12/1998 5:25:00 PM
From: Mathon Dabasir	Respond to of 14451

<<SGI is not a full spectrum supplier. ".">> Greg, -thank you- for your feedback. Your comments only solidify my point. That is, nearly everyone believes SGI is a supplier of esoteric products for only the most demanding "compute intensive" applications... especially SGI product managers it seems. Too bad. There are probably lots of compelling -mainstream- business environments out there that could benefit greatly by implementing SGI server wares, if only this public perception did not exist. <<SGI is not mainstream, when an organisation gets an SGI machine it will be segregated for more specialized purpose.>> imho, if SGI has any -hope- of turning things around, then they are going to have to reverse the general public sentiment as you have noted above so well. Especially as they enter the NT fray... a mainstream business environment marketed to -quite well- by many "full spectrum suppliers". Hey, maybe they'll prosper in this mainstream NT space and their new found marketing knowledge will spread throughout the SGI UNIX camp. This humble camel trader hopes so... Mathon