Yes, it happens. Our internal goal is that 95 percent of orders be delivered within five days. So far, demand has never gone so far ahead that we were not able to respond. Even now, we are planning for a sharp demand increase after 2000 because of normal cycles as well as the replacement of old technology. Our current volume could be doubled by the beginning of the next century.
Every business is local, but business strategy is global.
In every country, we employ local people who speak the language and are familiar with the local market. However, as we often meet difficulties when first implementing our global system, we have regional coordination teams, in the case of Croatia in Munich, to provide support for the product and management. There are many programs run on the old mainframe systems, some 10-15 years old. But when the system was updated or changed, the banks realized that the costs were higher than the replacing the whole system with a network of faster, more efficient personal computers. This huge market is the one Compaq owns.