Jim writes:

> A now moot question would be this:  How many more sales and how much
> better would the quarter have been if a continuing path for MPE
> through OpenMPE would have been in place?

Well, in the last quarter the servers group barely squeezed out a profit
(something Carly had promised would happen) and the end of the quarter
corresponded with the end of MPE sales, so you figure if there were a lot of
last-minute 3000 purchases at a much higher profit percentage than any of
the other products in the group, there's a chance that only by killing the
3000 did they make their targets for the last quarter.

It will be interesting to see if they can maintain this momentum through the
current quarter without (as far as we know) any contribution from new 3000
sales.

G.