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by Fushigi on Wed Dec 13, 2006 at 11:55:41 AM PDT

Just because they are buying the software (or at least trying to) now doesn't mean it will be installed right away. If the money in the 2006 budget is not spent there's no guarantee that the money will roll over in to the 2007 budget. Frequently budget dollars are use or lose.

Also, perhaps they wanted to use several copies on test machines to do internal testing before rolling out to the masses. For instance, we have over 40 common applications and a grand total of well over 100 applications in use where I work. No release of Windows can be deployed before we've tested the entire portfolio against it. It is a lot of work and takes weeks, sometimes months. But it can't begin until we get the software itself.

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