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To: A.L. Reagan who wrote (29232)	3/21/2000 6:31:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

A. L. - re: Struck me like the loser kid in elementary school who tries to buy his friends. CPQ has 34% of the server market, more than the next two combined. They ship more than 3,000 servers a day. In revenue terms, CPQ is still an easy #1. By comparison, their sales of server hardware are more than four times those of SUNW. This initiative is a way for CPQ to use its cash to leverage its entry into the ASP market, an area where CPQ has already invested more than $600M. Their stated goal is to have 40% of the ASP business - in other words, to have a little more share in ASPs than they have in the general market. Seems sensible enough to me.