The new millennium is proving to be a challenging time for the computer industry and its distributor customers as they negotiate one hurdle after another. Just as companies were recovering from frantic and costly efforts to ward off the dreaded "Millennium Bug," many of the business-to-consumer, and even business-to-business, dot-corns crashed and burned. These widely publicized failures instigated free-fall declines in the NASDAQ, which dragged many technology sector securities down with it. And while 2001 hardly began as a banner year for the economy, the already lackluster business climate received a crippling blow on September 11.
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