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To: Boplicity who wrote (123479)	5/10/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 176387

Greg, I was really off-topic last night. People were discussing IBM... I was talking about corporate software purchases which prior to 1994 (client-server) were pretty much owned by IBM. Even if you bought say, Boole and Babbage software the costs were all bundled into IBM hardware as a sort of var arrangement or something. This led to problems down the line for IBM because customers said, "oh, why is this mainframe $1mm when I can buy and equivalent unix box for 100K" ... we wondered why they priced things the way they did. But now, notice all the software companies sap, peoplesoft etc that sell into that market are dying of saturation. They use y2k as an excuse but it is actually mkt saturation because software implementations are done once every decade and thats it. I was just pointing out that there might have been a method to IBM pricing madness, we discounted IBM in the early 90s, they did fail at PCs but there was a lot of stuff they did right. Michelle