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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (47354)	2/16/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>I think you are right about the cos you see, but wrong about the larger cos. I don't believe Dell's #1 customer, Boeing, is buying extra pcs while laying off people. And on down the line. I agree, companies will avoid buying "extra pcs". But if they have a bunch of older, non-Y2K compliant machines, replacing them with new machines is likely to be the cheapest and quickest solution. As Richard said, the hardware costs are negligible compared to the labor costs.