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To: davesd who wrote (9271)	10/23/1997 6:19:00 PM
From: Big Bucks	Respond to of 70976

Dave, You can be sure that R&D is well underway, and likely, systems are being beta sited at strategic customers' R&D centers. Design improvement/innovation takes time and money and customers will want a finalized product, not an unknown/unproven product until it is 100% production worthy. The bugs need to be worked out and the supporting infrastructure like parts, process engineering data, and manufacturing/service support need to be ready to go. The entire package needs to be intact prior to general release. BB