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To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (1589)	8/2/2002 5:46:49 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 4345

Ah, but chip orders by HP's outsourced manufacturers would not come through HP to NSM, would they. It sounded like they were talking about orders from HPQ, not from other manufacturers who happen to be building products for HPQ. Not that it really matters - if it was a "supply chain issue", then they should make up for it fairly quickly after the glitch is fixed (parts inventories would be depleted and they would have to restock) and NSM wouldn't have to warn about the next qtr. Perhaps they were just looking for a scapegoat and if HPQ is, as suggested here, flexing its merged muscles, then blaming them is not surprising. BWDIK?