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To: Richard Forsythe who wrote (152226)	1/26/2000 8:25:00 PM
From: Sr K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

It is clear to me that "calendar-quarter basis" refers to Oct 1 - Dec 31, 1999 [92 days] and "fiscal-quarter basis" refers to Oct 30, 1999 - Jan 28, 2000 [91 days]. When a preannouncement states in the printed release (less prone to error than a cc) that: Unit volumes are expected to increase more than 30 percent on a fiscal-quarter basis, and 50 percent on a calendar-quarter basis, it is unreasonable to interpret the first part of that statement to mean 30% for Q1 FY2001 which hasn't started (although they give forward guidance of 30% topline growth going forward; how could they anticipate that Apr 2000 would be so weak as to drop the rate from 50% Jan 2000 - Mar 2000 to 30% for Feb 2000 - Apr 2000?); a quarter is 3 months mol with Dell's quarters having 13 weeks (or 14 every 7 years or so); but I'll grant you that there is a little ambiguity in "Unit volumes are expected to ...".