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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5842)	5/27/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	of 9818

Intel has begun installing extra power generators at factories in Asian countries and Latin American countries with shaky power grids. And its purchasers and technicians have been visiting companies it does not buy from today to see if they could step in if a supplier faltered. "It takes us up to six months to qualify a supplier of something like specialty chemicals" to meet Intel's quality standards, said Rose, the company official leading the effort ... McKesson HBOC, the drug distributor based in San Francisco, said it had to make its decision to order eight large backup diesel generators from Caterpillar Inc. by May 5 to get guaranteed installation by the end of the year. Companies also need to worry about what happens if too many others are thinking about the same backups they expect to use. Take all the companies planning to rent generators. *"There's no way in the world our industry could supply the demand that is in the planning stages,"* said Mark Conrad, United States marketing director for Aggrecko, the Dutch company that owns the world's largest rental fleet of mobile generators ... Good NY Times article: Worriers, Start Your Engines Contingency Plans Hit Their Stride for Year 2000 nytimes.com Hmmm - Wonder who hasn't put their gen order in yet? Cheryl 218 Days till ...

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