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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (36201)	3/31/1998 3:47:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Prior to the Tandem merger announcement, CPQ had revenue per employee of 1.3M (about $20B in revenue with about 15,000 people) so I am actually surprised that Dell's number is not higher... I strongly agree with your point about comparisons, DEC's 33,000 service employees generate about $6B (something less than $200K per employee). This was one of the reasons that I doubt Dell will do a service acquisition, and one of the reasons CPQ's numbers (as projected in the article) are so low. If the DEC deal falls through CPQ will have over $25B in revenues with about 21000 people, still well over $1M per employee. Clearly, based on CPQ performance vs Dell, this is not the measure on which to base your investment decision.