And lo on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:35:13 -0000, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:

> On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:07:55 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>> The point is it provides wildly more
>> functionallity than we actually need.
>
> Today, but when you spend money on networking infrastructure, you also
> plan for what you might need in the future.  Some places just buy the
> biggest thing they can so it's not going to be obsoleted before the
> depreciation timeframe expires.

Or from the more practical view they needed 35, but get a discount if they  
buy 50; so they justified the extra 15 by sending them to the UK :-)

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Phil Cook

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