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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (5700)	1/31/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Respond to of 14451

Well, you're right that Nine is marketing and reselling the 1600SW bundle for PCs. But the monitor itself is an SGI product. I'm not sure what financial arrangements SGI has with Nine. I know SGI has lent a few million dollars to Nine when it was close to going belly up and then converted the loan to preferred stock, so now SGI owns about 28% on Nine. So given this, I think SGI was in a position to get a pretty good deal. So, maybe Nine gets 10% of the revenue from the monitor, I don't know. Do you know what percentage a reseller "normally" gets on a product like this ?