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To: tbevan who wrote (10800)	5/15/1998 10:22:00 AM
From: frank doolittle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

Does anyone see any good things coming out of the June 3-5 conference. Looks like a well planned users group. Sometime these little things cause a spike.

To: tbevan who wrote (10800)	5/15/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: hasbeen101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14631

IMO Jubak's reasoning is sound. We hear a lot of stuff that Windows NT can't handle the high-end "enterprise" stuff, and that SQL Server doesn't scale, etc. Guess what? 99% of the customers don't care. The reality is that there are relatively few big customers (a few hundred) and relatively many small customers (a few million). So even though you can charge a premium price for the large customers, they are a boutique market with very large volumes. Cray made the fastest supercomputers, but they never made many dollars out of it because the market was so small. The average customer only requires average performance, which SQL Server can deliver.