rooster, like this quote from your link:
"It is not hard to imagine that the excitement around the Longhorn wave will be causing a lot of people to replace systems that they would not have [replaced] otherwise," said Poole.
Never mind the "wave" this will cause, but it will drive IT departments to replace PC's sooner than later. Sooner is better :=) FlyFisher
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