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To: John M. Zulauf who wrote (5428)	12/21/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Kirk Vanden	Respond to of 14451

Foolish Speculation ? Listen, I was commenting on information contained in the Infoworld article. No speculation on my part. The article even said their source was an SGI representative, earlier in the article, although not in the paragraph with the prices. It was published information with SGI Model numbers. The darn article had $5,999 as the price for a quad Xeon. I did a previous post in which I tried to show how that approx 7K might be a valid price if it referred to a base model, not a loaded machine. (Someone had mentioned the possibility of a 7K xeon, 1K more that the Infoworld price, so I used that figure instead and added in a bigger hard disk in my pricing). I didn't misread the article. It had $5,999.00 for the price. I've posted two references to Infoworld articles recently. Perhaps you looked up the article that did not contain prices. Obviously I did not speculate and make this up as you sort of implied. What I meant by the "The Dell price you quoted is most likely correct" was a nice way of pointing out that as far as I can tell Dell does not have a quad Xeon workstation. I thought you were getting the comparison confused with their quad Xeon server machines. Apples and Oranges. I meant your price would most likely be accurate if Dell actually sold a quad Xeon workstation. If you don't know the difference between a server and workstation then email me and I'll send you a short beginner's tutorial. have a merry xmas. Kirk