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To: Sam Citron who wrote (6787)	9/9/2003 9:00:52 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 13403

>> If the 3.5 in. market is suddenly profitable, what is to keep Japan from coveting their piece of it? The couple billions of $$ that Hitachi, Fugitsu, MKE, NEC and others lost in 6 years of trying to establish share in the disk drive market. The disk drive market is suddenly profitable now because companies that do drives as a hobby decided to stop bleeding and move on to something else where they have not been out-competed. The only reason the Japanese companies dominate mobile drives is that the customers are captive divisions. Sarmad