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To: E Ramos who wrote (12169)	7/11/1999 11:25:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 18016

Puzo put into words what many of us feel but don't have words to say. Speaking of NN's manufacturing, you may find this case study interesting: techweb.com June 28, 1999, Issue: 1166 Section: Distribution: Special Report Newbridge Networks: case study Tapping distribution almost to the max, Newbridge Networks Corp. sources 90% of its components through the channel, up sharply from 15% to 20% three years ago and 50% last year. Today, Newbridge continues to buy directly from the component companies 10% of the time only because they don't sell through the equipment maker's network of distributors, according to Don Hnatyshin, corporate vice president of worldwide procurement at the Ottawa, Canada-based maker of wide-area-network equipment. . . .