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To: CGarcia who wrote (30962)	8/17/1998 7:07:00 AM
From: Satish C. Shah	Respond to of 97611

Good Morning. Well not really, if Globex is to be trusted. GLOBEX PRICES AS OF 08/17/98 06:00 AM TRADE DATE: 08/17/98 CONTRACT LAST NET CHGE &P 500 SEP98 1053.80 -850 E-MINI SEP98 1053.50 -875 DEC98 1064.50 -900 NSDQ100 SEP98 1322.05A -1520 Regards, Satish

To: CGarcia who wrote (30962)	8/17/1998 7:47:00 AM
From: enginer	Respond to of 97611

We are all aware of superior products that never reached market sucess because public perception supported a lesser option. This has been happening in the PC arena since MS-DOS 1.x vs CPM/86. The underswell of (highly) technical opinion is that NT5.0 will either be a bloated mega-disaster or will finally approach being as useful as a typical UNIX system. CPQ knows this, and knows that it has the best product in the several versions of ALPHA. The question is whether or not CPQ has the guts to market against MS, Intel, AND public perception in the workstation/upper end/server market: "Everyone is converting to NT anyway, we might as well gradually replace our UNIX servers with NT servers. It's the way of the future." If you talk to MIS managers of some large corporations who had UNIX and Novell two years ago, and then replaced their Novell servers with NT servers, you'll find that none of them can manage without their UNIX servers. It seems that heavy processing is still better accomplished with UNIX servers. So far in my career, every Oracle server I've ever seen was running on a UNIX server. One IT professional, however, did send me e-mail saying, "I support several installations of ORACLE on NT. There are performance and functional issues that I encounter which I have never seen on UNIX (Pyramid)." (The above is from: Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus UNIX by John Kirch Networking Consultant and Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows NT) Last update: 12 August 1998 )