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NEWS.COM reports on a talk Mr. Platt gave recently.

                "The thing we didn't understand was how quickly
                 emerging economies of the world would collapse
                 on us," Platt said. "Hewlett-Packard growth in the
                 last five years has been fueled by explosive growth
                 in emerging economies. We have done very well in
                 all of these emerging Asian, European, and Latin
                 American countries.

                "Korea is an excellent example. We grew from
                 zero to a billion dollars faster there than we had
                 ever grown to a billion dollars in any other country.

                "There is no way we are going to do $400 million in
                 Korea this year."
                 ...
                "You are going to have to find
                 $600 million worth of business somewhere else just
                 to have zero growth this year."

The full story is at
        < http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26102,00.html >

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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