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To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (58785)	4/19/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: rupert1	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 97611

El: I don't even have dreams that wild. You call that "wild"!

To: Elwood P. Dowd who wrote (58785)	4/19/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: Peter Algoet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Hi El and Thread, Always be optimistic. CPQ is still doing big business in Europe. I'm working as a consultant for EDS and their huge base of customers are using Compaq products recommended by EDS. Especially, the Server product line is the most recommended product to its customers. Every EDS account is using Compaq Servers and desktop PCs. An real example : EDS won a project in the Netherlands to roll-out 17.000 PCs using Novell NDS for desktop management. The first wave of the roll-out consist of 17 proliant 1600 servers worth approx. $500.000. The second wave is the rollout of 150 proliant 1600 servers and 17.000 desktops worth more than $10 million. That's only for one project. The EDS technical staff like to work with Compaq products as the synergy of CPQ hardware and Novell technology such as NDS is outstanding. Someone on this thread claimed that EDS will not work anymore with CPQ. That is not true. EDS has only chosen DELL as Home PCs for their employees instead of CPQ. EDS never recommended DELL servers at their customers and they never will. CPQ and EDS have a too strong relationship. Just giving facts and not rumors. Greetings from Belgium. Peter. P.S. I'm glad that Pfeiffer and Mason resigned because CPq is a great company but poorly managed the last 2 years. Still holding my CPQ shares for 10 more years.