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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (24453)9/20/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Duker  Respond to of 70976
 
<<I'd like to turn your comments around, though, and ask *why* CPQ had two weeks of downtime in the second quarter, and *why* they used big incentives to flush out the distribution channel? Neither of those is the act of a company with booming sales at premium prices.>>

My only response to your two "whys" would be: poor management running a company with an inferior business model.

--Duker