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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (129556)	8/2/2001 8:06:36 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>The H.J. Heinz Co. (HNZ: news, chart, profile) said Thursday that it acquired frozen Mexican food maker Delimex Holdings, Inc. from investment firm Fenway Partners, Inc. Delimex, based in San Diego, Calif., will operate as a unit of the Heinz Frozen Food Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Heinz expects the acquisition to be slightly accretive in the current fiscal year.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (129556)	8/2/2001 8:34:56 PM
From: Alomex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

if they don't show in dollar figures, they do not belong in a metric that purports to measure dollars. they might belong somewhere else, but not in this metric. This is a key difference: (1) the impact on productivity from IT will only show itself over time (2) computers do not increase productivity. To claim (2) is harebrained. On every individual case I can think of I can report enormous gains from productivity in IT. Therefore the explanation lies elsewhere (to give a simple example, perhaps all the gains in IT are being reinvested in more IT, therefore they do not show in the bottom line, but as soon as we stop reinvesting them we'll see an explosion of productivity).