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To: Greg h2o who wrote (25629)	10/18/2000 6:30:55 PM
From: Duffeck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42804

Now Greg, hold on mean spirited one. <<SUNW's cost of sales for the Q was $2.6bil and R&D was $490mil.... >> There is normally a lot more in cost of sales than marketing. How about engineering, materials, hands on labor, manufacturing costs, etc etc etc. In fact I didn't look at SUNW 10K but I know MRV books selling and administrative expenses as a separate line item and doesn't even include them in "cost of sales". According to MRV's August 10K for the 6 mo ending 6/30/2000 MRV spent $13.3M on R&D and $41.5M on "selling and admin expense" while the cost of goods sold was $88.5M. I don't know what the breakdown is between "selling" and "administrative" expenses. duff