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To: Travis who wrote (16319)	8/6/1998 5:20:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213181

Haven't seen any comments on latest Merced woes being disclosed today. mdronline.com@7295402ypqytr/mpr/editorials/edit12_10.html Doubt this has much to do with Apple since this sector of the market was way out of Apple's league but I find it interesting. I read that NT 5.0 was going to incorporate most of the changes needed to move to an IA-64 system and that subsequently the NT 6.0 or whatever they were going to call it would be a relatively straight forward modification of NT 5.0. Again just what I've read. We all know NT 5.0 is delayed but apparently the IA-64 program is even further behind. I wonder if this portends greater stress in the Win-Tel partnership? Would Microsoft consider closer partnership with existing high end companies? Will this result in closer cooperation with Compaq/Digital in the Alpha program? Too bad Apple doesn't have any experience here - the margin on $100K and up machines must be quite nice. Guess IBM wouldn't appreciate it either since it competes with their mainframe business. Rich