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To: TREND1 who wrote (116154)	4/11/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176387

Yes and no. It's very complicated and impossible to sort out. However, Dell uses a lot of suppliers CPQ doesn't and vice versa. Remember, a simple desktop can involve hundreds of suppliers from sheet metal and plastics to capacitors and connectors and ultimately to things like processors, hard drives and monitors to name just a few. CPQ and DELL might get their PII slot1 connectors from AMP but differ on memory socket suppliers. This is one of the complexities R&D handles. They generally design, specify, test, qualify all of these components into a dependable... or not so dependable system...<g> Big ticket items like monitors, HD, DVD, memory, graphics controller etc... yes, their selection paths do cross more frequently. MEATHEAD