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To: s. bateh who wrote (8348)	3/16/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: HardMoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10072

It's interesting regarding Jaz. Most everyone thinks the new single platter 2 gig disk drive will replace the Jaz drive........Maybe IOM is clearing out inventory and with so many Jaz drives being shipped we'll reep the great margins from all the accompanying Jaz disk sales........Jaz could save IOM again this quarter........depending on how many weeks inventory they have in the channel......if its high, well, they sold cheap and now resellers must sell quick before the new drive comes out.....watch out for high inventory of Jaz2 drives and disks........if they are inline.....IOM made money this quarter.......as far as I can tell with my rudimentary channell checks drive sales wer good till end of Jan and got better begining of March.............but disk sales seem to be exploding...........At my local compusa they are re stocking their zip disks evry 3 weeks......4 times a quarter. Not bad. Now take the Zip 250 drive, it has been moving very well since 3rd week in Feb. I also like seeing 250 mb 4/6 packs in stock and in Bundles: warehouse.com warehouse.com cdw.com This one I just found.....4 pack now available at PC Connection as well as CDW: pcconnection.com I would hope that IOM will finish the quarter with at least 4 weeks of inventory in the channel (250 Disks).....anything less would not be good....slow fix to problem.......or low demand? I believe we'll see at 4 weeks in the channel....6 would be nice......but I betcha it'll be closer to 8 by end of Q2. I believe 6-8 is a comfortable inventory level. Frank