To: MileHigh who wrote (19371 ) 4/27/1999 12:56:00 AM From: Dave B Respond to
OTOTOTOT everyone being dead in the water if the time-shared server went down). The only niche I think it would have been useful for would have been to replace applications where terminals are in use today. And there aren't many of those left.not going to let the NC be successful. They were going to do whatever they had to do to get the cost of the PC down to kill the NC as quickly as possible (think about it, would you rather have a box that costs $299 that only works when it's connected to the internet, or a box that costs $299 that can do all of the things an NC can do plus more whether or not it's connected to the internet). So Oracle is to thank for causing the price of the PC to come down to a new level that entices a whole new segment of users into the market. (Of course, this was not Larry's plan -- his plan was to have the NC's of the world all tied to Oracle's products, not Microsoft's.)
