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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121183)	12/7/2000 5:10:13 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, where'd you get 60 months for a replacement cycle number for PCs in industry? In my experience, it has been more like 3 years. It will be interesting what it gets to going forward (longer?). Tony

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121183)	12/7/2000 5:39:56 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, <Do you know of any establishment where they are pleased and satisfied with the current level of automation.> As you might know already, processing power has just gone way ahead of society's capacity to make use of it. I guess some people draw the wrong conclusions from that and think that PCs must be in decline. Guess that's just one problem with 2nd-order economics. It's not growth anymore, it's acceleration of growth. Tenchusatsu

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (121183)	12/7/2000 6:38:31 PM
From: WTSherman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Recessions come and go. That is economic reality. But, the automation process is in the very early stages of development.< Mary, you'll get no argument from me on that. My only point was that the replacement cycle is maturing and this will have some impact on growth of the PC business. There's no question that more systems and more automated systems will be deployed and that lots of computers will be used to drive them. Sorry if I gave any other impression...