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To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (1125)	10/23/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: LK2	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2025

Yogi, RE--IBM says PC era over. Sounds like sour grapes. Apple and IBM were the stars of the early PC era. Apple is just starting to make a comeback now, as a much smaller player with an insignificant market share. IBM never was able to make any money off the PC, in spite of being credited with popularizing the personal computer, or setting the standard for the PC. So Gerstner figures, let's move on, to an area where IBM can make some real money for a change. Network computing. Wasn't Oracle (and Sun and others) already pushing that idea? Let's face it, with the way PC prices have been dropping, it's hard to get really enthusiastic about the profit potential in making PCs. Regards, Larry PS--I admire the way you apologized to PX. >>>>Your postings, research, and opinions have always been informative, well presented, and invaluable to me personaly.<<<< PPS---Why hasn't anyone ever said that my postings have any research, are informative, or well presented? Usually, when someone mentions me, they say my opinions tend to wander. But I guess that's the result of a well-traveled mind.

To: Yogi - Paul who wrote (1125)	10/23/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2025

RE: PC era over So Lou has finally got the word. Over for IBM, maybe, but for DELL? Over for U.S., maybe, but for China? Maybe Lou should talk to Larry Ellison. Vast sounds of silence on the network computer coming from that quarter. Larry's probably too busy actually beating the bushes selling software to waste time on that lame idea. I speak with the authority of the working classes when I say that the NC idea is an ill-concealed attempt to control the desktop from headquarters and to stop us working stiffs from playing games and surfing on company time. The Chinese government might prefer NC's to PC's, but never in America. The bosses and the Washington thugs will never be able to get away with this. Access to your own hard-drive and floppy is a constitutional right of privacy -- First amendment, I think, or something to do with equal protection and due processor.