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To: QwikSand who wrote (18102)	7/28/1999 12:27:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) of 64865

To All: The departure of Paul Maritz, announced today, is a serious blow to Microsoft. I've been in meetings with Maritz on several occasions and he is one of the smartest people and most capable executives I've seen in the computer industry. This may seem faint praise in an industry where most of the executives are brewed from a rather pathetic recipe (take one Wizard-of-Oz-style scarecrow, replace some of the sawdust in the head with helium to enhance the creature's self-image, swap the raggedy clothes for a fancy suit, and sit the result behind the wheel of a BMW with a cell phone in its hand), but Maritz is an exception: a genuinely intelligent human being. He is so capable, in fact, that I would bet that he lived up to his obligation under rule #3: "Always have a good successor in place." So while things are unlikely to go to pieces with his departure (somebody during today's Greenspeak repeated the famous quote, "The cemeteries are filled with indispensable men."), he is a guy that one simply does not completely replace, easily or otherwise. Too bad for M$ and the industry in general. Bullish for SUNW. Regards, --QwikSand

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