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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (6162)	4/5/2001 8:05:10 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Respond to of 57684

I'm not talking about dot-com's. Pure-play dot-coms were important for marginal growth in spending 1997-2000, and many of them have evaporated. However they pale compared to the spending of large corporations. Plus the biggest pure plays are still in business (AOL, eBay, Yahoo, eTrade, Exodus, etc) and will be adding capacity for a long time. It's a real guess here but I bet those five alone probably spent as much on bandwidth, equipment, software and services as the evaporated set combined. I was going over the budgets involved in the proposed LA City breakup, and LA spends more on IT than it does on street maintanance. (It shows, too!)