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To: Zed who wrote (4018)	12/29/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: Craig McNeill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4453

IBM lands two NC deals By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com December 28, 1998, 12:45 p.m. PT IBM announced two large network computer deals today, proving that the market isn't dead. It's just growing slower than expected. IBM said it sold 8,000 Network Stations, its version of the NC,to American General Finance (AGF) in one of the larger Network Station deals to date and "several thousand" to Sysco Corporation, the largest food distributor in the country. Although the deals represent a minuscule fraction of overall desktop computer sales, they stand as proof that the NC concept lives on. NCs burst onto the scene in 1995 as an inexpensive alternative to PCs. Centrally controlled by powerful servers, NCs, said proponents, would be both cheaper to acquire and to manage. Since then, however, PCs have dropped in price and become easier to manage, wiping out many of the promised benefits of NCs.