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Technology Stocks : Siebel Systems (SEBL) - strong buy? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: eRM Solutions who wrote (2290)	10/27/1998 2:46:00 PM
From: treetopflier	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6974

John, of course the Sales/Marketing VP has to make his #. Sure SEBL can help. OK you be the VP of Sales, and I'll be the VP of IS and you convince me that I should spend money for SEBL99 next year, rather than putting it on the agenda for 2000. Remember 40% of my IT resources are working on Y2K ONLY next year. The remaining 60% is more than 1/2 committed to day to day support of existing applications. That leaves about 25% (or less) of my entire budget, which is under recessionary pressure and likely to be cut mid-year next year for new projects. Ahead of SFA on my agenda for next year is a wide area network upgrade, additional LAN support and improving the interface to the data warehouse we spent a ton on last year. Also ahead of you are several KEY intra net and extra net projects, leaving something like 5% of my budget for other projects. Did I mention that I have some anxiety about large app projects that span Y2K itself, and that if we undertake SEBL it has to be DONE by 10/31/99? So, go ahead convince me. You have my parameters and the same info I have now. ttf