Very Large Orders
Ken,
I see. Yes, it is possible that a very large order might temporarily overload the system. If we just use the figures available right now: DELL is selling about $6,000,000 per day over the net; using ASP of about $2,250 per machine, that would be ~2,667 machines per day. So an order of 100,000 machines would make a significant impact.
However, I have trouble envisioning any institution--particularly a bureaucracy, which would order that many machines with a requirement that they be delivered simultaneously, or which would want to install them simultaneously. The only possibility I can think of would be the possibility of replacing an entire existing system simultaneously, for instance, to make a system Y2K compliant. And even then, the urgency would be to have the machines in place in order to do the exchange in one swell foop, not to have them shipped all at once. I believe that Eastman Kodak did something similar about a year ago.
regards, 3. |
