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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (40227)	1/10/2001 5:25:27 PM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't see why you don't see that a lot of the stuff isn't not discretionary. Most customers worth having have SUNW, IBM and Intel all on site and all overseen by the same manager. But each type of hardware is looked after by a different person or team. He gets to see how many staff and how much money goes towards each team and when times are tuff he has to cut back. Intel gives more bang per buck, and as long as the quality of the team is good, gives just as much reliability, scalabilty etc as a Sun or IBM solution. In a slowdown, it is the projects that have their autonomous budgets that are cut, and that is where the discretionary purchase of expensive Sun servers lies.