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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (16808)	5/5/2003 10:39:56 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57684

>>As a result, industry executives and analysts say, the balance of power is shifting away from technology suppliers and toward their corporate customers. At the same time, the use of lower-cost building blocks of computer hardware and software is spreading, making it easier for companies and individuals to share data and work together using industry standards rather than remain dependent on one or two key suppliers. I dedinitely agree with hardware commoditization, and to a large extent software, too. But I disagree that this next point is any different now than it ever was. There was a period in the late 80's and early 90's when technology was making its speediest advances and coroprate America was not yet adopting it: >>focus is no longer on the technology itself - with its arcane language of processing speeds and gigabytes - but on what people and companies can do with it.