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To: Richard Habib who wrote (21890)	1/5/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: .com	Respond to of 213173

I agree with you on the potential impact of OS X on the educational market. I really like the idea of only maintaining and updating software on one server instead of each workstation. When watching the demo, however, I kept flashing back 25 years to the practice of using a mainframe and dumb terminals. Only now the "mainframe" is just a couple of grand and takes up 1/100th of the space. The different colored iMacs also will lead to another problem in the computer lab--kids fighting over which computer they will use, wanting one with their favorite color!

To: Richard Habib who wrote (21890)	1/6/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Hi Rich - been enjoying your Angola "rainy night-lamp" stories >> " I'm surprised there has been so little discussion regarding OS X server. From what I could tell the demo was pretty impressive. Sounds to me like it could be a knockout in the education market. J Kary where are you buddy. " << You are sooo right about OS X Server for education . I suspect we may see ORCL lend a hand since Peoplesoft and SAP have now coded for the Mac . Good to see you back and enjoying the Wyoming night life - I hope to review OS X Server soon . I was impressed with NeXT after seeing it doing RT transaction processing at Chas Schwab a few years back . I am fixated on THINKing what IBM will do with the $5 bln it gets from A T & T in April - any thoughts ? hehehe Seems some AAPL G 3's now have a little more IBM inside - PPC with a hard disk . Regards, Jim Kary

To: Richard Habib who wrote (21890)	1/6/1999 9:04:00 AM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

I'm surprised there has been so little discussion regarding OS X server. Sounds like it could be a knockout in the education market. Well, we would have to see what are the security arrangements. Yesterdays demo only presented the ability to net-boot which is a must in an education environment. Scott Schiller writes: When watching the demo, however, I kept flashing back 25 years to the practice of using a mainframe and dumb terminals. Only now the "mainframe" is just a couple of grand and takes up 1/100th of the space. Ha. Not even close. The apps were running on the "dumb terminal". That is light years away from a mainframe and a dumb terminal. I empathize with your PTSD from using mainframes, but fear not. Remotely booted iMacs do not dumb terminals make. Based on 520,000 iMacs and assuming somewhere around 1 million units total, I'd guess revenues in the 1.7 range Some of the iMacs sold surely bit into other model sales (remember the large low end G3 inventories at MacMall?). My estimate is around 950K-1mill units sold, for revenues around $1650-$1700mill.