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To: joe who wrote (15344)	4/29/1998 8:01:00 PM
From: Martin Milani	Read Replies (1) of 45548

yes and no...most large companies buy their PCs thru VAR and resellers which ship the machines out to them on a previously defined and a company specific standard configuration which in most cases include a NIC card, so the companies themselves do not really open the box and install the NIC card, what they do end up doing is replacing the NIC card when they go bad...its easy...!( what if the chip on the motherboard goes bad...do you call in the vendor..or get your tools and get the chip out of the socket..and may damage it . the hardware vendors hate supporting this.....etc ) and then there is DELL and Gateway which ship to order...as long as the NIC manufacturers stay ahead in terms of speed and add on technology they can hold their grounds...

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