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To: brushwud who wrote (6034)	4/13/1999 2:12:00 AM
From: ramin shahidi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14451

Finally got my 320.. After two months of delay, now by mistake they shipped me two machines instead of one! I had asked for 512RAM, the send it with 256RAM. I had asked for it to get upgraded to a PIII-500MHz, they still shipped it with 450-PII. I had asked for speakers, they didn't send them. And worse than all, they send it to the wrong address with a company that I had never heard of. I had to go and get the boxes myself. Did you know that the RAM that VPC takes, is not "off the shelf" and you have to pay $1K for 256M of it!! And almost all the operating system and attached software stuff, has to be provided by SGI only. For instance, VPC is shipped with an older versions of Microsoft Explorer, etc.. and you can not upgrade it by going to MS webpage. And ofcource the upgrades are not available by SGI either. I thought the whole purpose behind NT was compatibility! All of the sudden, O2's are starting to look a lot more attractive :/ --Ramin

To: brushwud who wrote (6034)	4/13/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: Eli Lauris	Respond to of 14451

Brushwud: The options were repriced a couple times since that posting. They're are always repriced at a market price on some specific date -- they are never priced below market. I'm not sure what your point is. Would you rather the management left the stock option price at $40 it was 4 years ago; providing zero incentive for employees to stay or to attract any new ones ? Repricing options is pretty common practice in Silicon Valley, as I'm sure you know. Options are the main tool for companies to attract and keep their employees. I know your argument is that investors don't get the same break -- but that's just how cookie crumbles around here. Maybe in another place at another time, the investors would get their shares repriced and engineers would get 50 lashes each time the quarter numbers are not met.