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To: Amir Shalit who wrote (36840)	11/19/1998 12:49:00 AM
From: Richard Nehrboss	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Amir, Sometimes perception is reality... Having come from the IS service industry, I can tell you end user expectations are insane. If a user has touched a fast machine just once, they are no longer satisfied with anything greater than 18 months old. Old cruddy chairs may work just fine, but if it means keeping your employees happy, because MS-Word loads in 4 seconds rather than 10 seconds, you might just have to do it. Richard PS most software will still run on a 486, but you won't catch me doing it.

To: Amir Shalit who wrote (36840)	11/19/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

Amir - Re: " can you give me one example of a single non-tech company that will benefit from replacing P100 PCs with PII-450Mhz." Sure. Glad to help out! How about Dreamworks/SKG ANimation Studios - for all their animators - who wouldn't mind accelerating their renderings by a factor of two or three or four so they can get their Film Creation times down from three years to one. How about Sabre/American Airlines Reservation clerks - who can speed up queries for their customers to accelerate flight selections and ticketing reservation processes. How about Salamon/Smith Barney bond Traders - to keep track of tens of thousands of bonds, interset rates, yield computations and discounted cash flows, and minute by minute currency fluctuations for all major global markets ? Re: " top servers are not "Intel Inside" but rather IBM/SUN/Compaq-DEC inside." Top SELLING SERVERS by IBM and Compaq have INTEL INSIDE. Ditto Hewlett Packard, Dell, Sequent, Data General, Unisys, and NCR. Paul