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To: Jeff-P who wrote (4955)	6/8/1998 1:08:00 PM
From: Alexis Cousein	Respond to of 14451

> If this is misleading, someone from SGI should set the record > straight Almost impossible. The '$' part is too easy to cheat with; IMHO, only very strictly monitored $/something figures (like TPC-D etc.) are worth anything; I would certainly never believe anything that lets Sun decide an SGI system configuration to use in any equation using '$'. I've known them to include 20" monitors, texture memory (not used in the tests under consideration), memory and disk using very old list prices, etc. etc., just to get the SGI prices up. Easy. Compress your price schedules (i.e. list price is closer to street price), and then take your newly-announced compressed list prices, and compare with competitor machines with loads of useless extras using an old competitor's price list :). Carefully pick the competitor's configuration you can craft that maximizes whatever metric you want. If you want a quote for an SGI, you're better off talking to SGI and not Sun ;).