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To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10432)	7/14/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: almaxel	Respond to of 64865

Hi Scotty, where is Dell's software? And how much would that be? Ralf

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10432)	7/14/1998 10:06:00 PM
From: Michael L. Voorhees	Respond to of 64865

Pealy: Do we have to use MICROCRAP software? Seems like the Dell hardware doesn't work with their software.

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10432)	7/14/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

yeah - but all you get is a Dell and you still have to pay $5 more to add insult to injury. So much for your high end graveyard. is Dell willing to discount that $10,000 by the way? last time i checked they didnt. But on the bright side you could run Solaris for Intel on it and make the best of the situation like Intel seems to have figured out since i assume Xeon customers are looking for scalability, reliability, managability etc.. all those vexing little things which the next version of NT is supposed to solve - check it out at their XEON launch page to see how the Sun is shining on Xeon intel.com

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10432)	7/14/1998 10:30:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Scott, Great! The customer can either buy the Enterprise 250 & get the best RAS (reliability,availability,service) for a competitive price, or, if they just HAVE to buy a Dell, they can run Solaris on Xeon. Since, Solaris has the fastest benchmarks of anyone on Xeon, & since Solaris is scalable and secure, as well, the potential customer is in a win-win with workgroup service at a pretty good price. The ONLY way the customer can fail is to select a Dell running NT (=big mistake). Besides being inferior, technically, NT is also more expensive for workgroups over 25 seats. This is because MSFT doesn't site license it. The message should be clear, even to you: grow and expand with a SUNW system (software only OR software & hardware) or get corn-holed by MSFT.

To: Scott McPealy who wrote (10432)	7/15/1998 1:17:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

It sounds like Dell is going to have to lower their price. <g> JMHO.