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To: Yousef who wrote (37998)	10/2/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 1572941

Yousef: << Another way to look at it, Maxwell ... Mission Critical = High Margins. Now do you understand, probably not.>> High Margins = Mission Critical . Lately AMD has engaged in some critical mission. They penetrated the MOBILE MARKET with the K6-300MHz for $215 whereas Intel PII-300 is selling for $800. Why on earth would some idiots buy a PII-notebook that costs $600 more? On the other hand maybe idiots would. I guess mobile market is no longer Mission Critical. The same will be with the server market. Maxwell

To: Yousef who wrote (37998)	10/2/1998 11:54:00 PM
From: Dr. Saeed Assadi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572941

Dr. Yousef, Re-- "... Mission Critical = High Margins." That is poor thinking!!!!! regards, sa

To: Yousef who wrote (37998)	10/3/1998 12:35:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572941

news.com Enjoy , Yousef , Stockman etc. Brian

To: Yousef who wrote (37998)	10/3/1998 12:37:00 AM
From: Buckwheat	Respond to of 1572941

Tony and Yousef, I'm not so sure that Intel has a foot firmly planted in the door of mission critical applications/operations. In our operation we use HP 9000's to run the mission critical personnel, fiscal, logistical, and operational applications. In fact, we just received three new ones a few months ago. Our Intel "big iron" is limited to a few PDCs and BDCs at large sites and an Exchange server and web server at the home location. (All backed-up by tape but not exactly mission critical) At our small and medium sites we use AMD and Pentium machines for BDCs. The bulk of our installed base is about 1500 low-end net-worked stations that are comprised of Pentium and AMD K-6/K6-2 machines (the retail type machines you mentioned). These machines run NT 4.0 and connect with the HPs as necessary through the WAN/LAN. In some instances they use various types of terminal emulation software to transact business with the HPs. All of these machines are also loaded with 64 MB RAM and Office 95/97. We have found that the savings offered in the "retail" machines has provided the funding necessary to modernize our network infrastructure (voice over IP, etc). Wasn't Cisco one of your favorite stocks Tony? Regards Buckwheat