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Technology Stocks : EMC How high can it go?
EMC 29.050.0%Sep 15 5:00 PM EST

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To: Tulvio Durand who wrote (6673)6/9/1999 7:36:00 AM
From: GVTucker  Read Replies (2) of 17183
 
RE: EMC and Y2K

At yesterday's Growth and Tech conference in NY (sponsor: PW) a lot of EMC's presentation was devoted to Y2K. A few highlights, quoted from the PW notes:

"While the company would not rule out the possibility of some customers freezing the implementation of some new applications in the second half of 1999, EMC doesn't see this as widespread, and sees demand for increased capacity on existing systems and Internet-related storage demand as the offset."

"And the company continues to see no Y2K impact on its business in 2000 from the bubble effect (depressed demand for storage in 2000 from the need to reabsorb storage capacity redeployed from Y2K test environments to production environments.)"

"Rothnie [SVP EMC] indicated that the majority of its customers purchased storage in 1997 and in the first half 1998 for Y2K testing and remediation (amounting to at most 10% of EMC revenues), and that Y2K-driven storage demand has subsided considerably since the second half of 1998."

PW analyst note here: "While we don't share EMC;s sanguine view of Y2k, it is an exogenous event, and is likely to have only a short term (1 to 2 quarter) impact if any."
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