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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47206)	2/15/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: gbh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

I agree about tossing out all the mainframes. You are pretending that these hurting corporations are made of money. They aren't and they can't waste what they do have on extra pcs. Michael, don't tell me your losing your sense of humor... Gary

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47206)	2/15/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Richard Gibbons	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Re: "You are pretending that these hurting corporations are made of money. They aren't and they can't waste what they do have on extra pcs". In my experience, this is incorrect (though my experience is limited to small corporations, not Fortune 500, so it might not be as relevant to the discussion). I've worked as a consultant and in 4 different companies, and in every case, new hardware was a no-brainer (because the hardware is negligable relative to the price of the software developers.) However, I do agree with your overall argument. I'd say that new purchases of anything computer-related will decline, and that people will spend all their money fixing the old stuff, rather than trying to implement a whole new systems. Much of what I've heard from many customers points to no spending on anything new in the latter half of this year. Richard