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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (112616)	10/6/2000 3:11:42 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 186894

>>...I haven't seen a SINGLE newswire story mentioning the fact that Europe is ON VACATION in the third quarter. Yet, all this horror about Europe sales?!?<< from Forbes.com via tonyt on the compaq thread: But some industry analysts have yet to join in singing the European blues. Count Bruce Stephen, vice president of PC market research at Framingham, Mass.-based research firm International Data Corp., among them. Stephen says the third quarter is traditionally slow for European PC sales, while the fourth quarter often makes up for the difference. ``Europe tends to have the biggest spike of any region worldwide during the fourth quarter. They also have a strong holiday buying component,'' he says. ``Their market tends to go to sleep during the third quarter. A lot of business and consumer buying shuts down. People take time off.'' Oh, and I almost forgot, notice the quote is from "Count Bruce". :))) Message 14528128