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      10-14-2007, 01:17 AM   #89
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Is there any chance whatsoever, of you being able to set-up a mobile phone/contract group-buy for the UK members, Manish, possibly involving the upcoming iPhone?

Really, I'm being serious!

BTW- welcome to the forum!

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Second this idea - (though I know discounts will be hard to come by on the i-phone)
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I work in Technical Sales for a company called VMware, if you work in IT and haven't heard of us, you will in the next few years.

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I work in Technical Sales for a company called VMware, if you work in IT and haven't heard of us, you will in the next few years.

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I just read your companies entry on Wikipedi and I still have no clue what you sell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware



Just when I was beginning to think I understood about IT
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http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/

We do something called Virtualization :

In its simplest form we can allow a company to save substantial amounts of money by consolidating many physical servers (or PCs) onto one physical box.

Take a large FTSE100 company they may have 1000+ physical servers stored in a large air conditioned room, there are large costs invloved in owning 1000+ servers and their associated cooling and power requirements. Our software allows a company with a 1000 servers to reduce this amount by 90%, so to say 100 Servers. Everything runs as before but crucially they can now make massive savings on space, cooling, power etc and the guys in IT who are supporting all this equipment now find it easier to do their job.

Another example, you are probably running Windows XP on your PC, what if you decided you wanted to try Linux or Windows Vista or Unbuntu or some other Operating System ? You can install some of our software and we will allow you to run a another operating system on your existing Windows XP machine.

Hope this helps ? The company is probably one of the largest you have never heard of, current Market cap is $40B +

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vmware shares bought.... why didn't you mention this a week ago !

lol

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pm me the info?! are they low at da mo?
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vmware shares bought.... why didn't you mention this a week ago !

lol

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Nice one, hope you are still holding them :-)

http://finance.google.com/finance?ch...031&q=NYSE:VMW
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not bought yet, but first thing monday !!

Look like a good investment.

Shame I didn't spot these weeks ago !

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Nice one, hope you are still holding them :-)

http://finance.google.com/finance?ch...031&q=NYSE:VMW

Im very cross you didnt tell me about these when they were 60p
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When's the Sony Ericsson K850 coming out??!! And how much would it be offline? (nudge nudge wink wink...?!)
they are out now and available on o2 and tmobile (new contracts and upgrades) but not available offline yet...

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Is there any chance whatsoever, of you being able to set-up a mobile phone/contract group-buy for the UK members, Manish, possibly involving the upcoming iPhone?

Really, I'm being serious!

BTW- welcome to the forum!

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hi vivek,
the iPhone will be available from the 9th of nov... 6pm onwards...
im not sure yet on how they are going to set up for a company or corporate purchase, so no promises yet...
if we were to setup a company lead, for e90post, i would need registration info, etc etc.
and besides, apple are governing the costs this time, regardless of the number of units we purchase from them, unfortunately there are going to be
NO discounts...

but in due course i will get some more info and let you know...

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Second this idea - (though I know discounts will be hard to come by on the i-phone)
sorry mate, there are no discounts whatsoever with this one, we won't be getting any employee discount on this product either.. which sucks...
but to give you all an idea, shh...
its going to be £269, for the handset + £35 and above contract, 18m.
and there is no sort of discount or cashback with this.

an alternative is the new nokia n81, sony w910i and w960i, or the k850i which is quite nice, with semi-touch screen and psp like sub-menu.
its

more details coming soon!


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hey I see some good networking going on here.



Well done guys !

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http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/

We do something called Virtualization :

In its simplest form we can allow a company to save substantial amounts of money by consolidating many physical servers (or PCs) onto one physical box.

Take a large FTSE100 company they may have 1000+ physical servers stored in a large air conditioned room, there are large costs invloved in owning 1000+ servers and their associated cooling and power requirements. Our software allows a company with a 1000 servers to reduce this amount by 90%, so to say 100 Servers. Everything runs as before but crucially they can now make massive savings on space, cooling, power etc and the guys in IT who are supporting all this equipment now find it easier to do their job.

Another example, you are probably running Windows XP on your PC, what if you decided you wanted to try Linux or Windows Vista or Unbuntu or some other Operating System ? You can install some of our software and we will allow you to run a another operating system on your existing Windows XP machine.

Hope this helps ? The company is probably one of the largest you have never heard of, current Market cap is $40B +

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Can you get me a discount ?
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Can you get me a discount ?
Yep, depends how much you want ;-) we do have free products as well
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/

Also, just to show off a bit, here are some pics of my unlocked iPhone on Vodafone UK



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How do you get hold of one of those?!
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Bought it in the Apple store in San Francisco when I was over there for work (actually I bought 3 when I was there and ebayed the other 2), whilst there some clever individuals figured out who to unlock it to any network, so it happily works on Vodafone UK.

Oh and believe the hype, it is a fantastic device, everyone who sees it wants one !!!
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i want one, so you can buy in US without a contract?
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Yep, $440 dollars with local sales tax, no contract needed, they were properly pissed off in the Apple Store, within about 20 minutes we bought 30 phones between 7 people !!

The problem you will have if you buy one today is that it will be on Firmware 1.1.1 so you will currently have to purchase a piece of software and go through a fairly complicated unlocking procedure.

But if you are computer savvy then it wouldn't be difficult ....

Hve a look at http://www.modmyiphone.com
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Yep, $440 dollars with local sales tax, no contract needed, they were properly pissed off in the Apple Store, within about 20 minutes we bought 30 phones between 7 people !!

The problem you will have if you buy one today is that it will be on Firmware 1.1.1 so you will currently have to purchase a piece of software and go through a fairly complicated unlocking procedure.

But if you are computer savvy then it wouldn't be difficult ....

Hve a look at http://www.modmyiphone.com
I just need to make a trip to the US now
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can I have discount on the Ipod phone please?!

Talking about what everyone does.. I work for an Investment bank as a stockbroker - but currently taking time out and working for a sales company!
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