Hello Ted,
Re: Still, some analysts doubt AMD can break Intel's stranglehold on the business market. "They must be smoking something illegal," says Ashok Kumar, who follows the company for U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray. Kumar says business IT buyers are inherently conservative, adding, "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM, and the same is true for Intel."
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Joe
tejek says: I think we all need to do an email to USBancorp Piper Jaffrey on Monday. Kumar is getting old.
Last night after forwarding the Raging Bull letter via email to CNET, I poked around the Piper Jaffray web site to explore that possibility.
The more I think about it, the more it seems foolish to try protesting to Piper Jaffray. I believe that Kumar's role at Piper Jaffray and the fact he once worked for *ntel is no accident, it is by design. I don't believe that Kumar is a loose cannon on the deck, but rather carrying out exactly what his superiors tell him to do. The implications seem to be that for whatever reason, AMD represents a great threat to Piper Jaffray, and they have their "hired gun" to handle that threat, or at least try.
Kumar's unprofessionalism can't have gone unnoticed at Piper Jaffray. It certainaly has not gone unnoticed here.
Just my opinion.
Kindest regards,
CrazyMan |
