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To: Ian@SI who wrote (130246)	6/1/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: David E. Taylor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

Ian: Re: "On the e-commerce side, it will be very, very large. Our growth rate can be in the US$20 billion to US$40 billion (range) over the next couple of years," Rollins said. When I read that quote from Rollins, I couldn't figure out if he meant that overall revenues would grow BY $20 to $40 billion over the next couple of years, or that the e-commerce part alone would grow BY that much. You read it a third way -- that overall revenues would grow FROM $20 billion TO $40 billion. There's a big difference between the FY 2001 revenues you arrive at via these three interpretations!! So I wonder which reading of Rollins's comment is correct?? Was it an ambiguous statement, or is it just ambiguous reporting?? David T.