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To: Road Walker who wrote (86030)	7/30/2002 8:46:20 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

John I have to say one thing as a parent. If I spent >$1000 in 2000 on a "school" PC I would have no incentive to spent that much again now. Most software that runs ok on a $1000 2000 machine would still run ok today ( with the exception of a couple high-end games ). C

To: Road Walker who wrote (86030)	7/30/2002 10:26:26 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: Back to school inventory build. According to analysts, it's relatively modest this year. Just hope the stuff sells This won't help: The Office of Management and Budget today put on hold -- pending an expedited review by an interagency board -- all planned information technology investments above $500,000 at the major agencies that would be moving to the Homeland Security Department under the White House's proposal fcw.com Nothing like adding layers of "if we block everything we can't get into trouble for mistakes" to the procurement process.