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Technology Stocks : Compaq
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To: rudedog who wrote (91118)5/7/2001 11:56:18 AM
From: Tomcat  Read Replies (1) of 97611
 
For the last 2 years or so until he left, Perez worked part time at CPQ as sort of a consultant. I have no idea how much influence he had on decision making. Several individuals who worked for him in the past respected him and consulted with him on a regular basis. I am not sure how heavily Mary relied on him.

The interesting thing is Keith, for whatever reason, blocked many of the engineer's ideas including "blades". The "blades" architecture would have required CPQ to do their own chipset. I don't think Keith liked the risk of doing a chipset. He wanted his resources working on a more traditional less risky architecture based on Intel's chipsets. It was also Keith that killed a two-way P54 chipset development in favor of Intel's shared L2 idea that never got off the ground.

It was Mike Perez that decimated the high-end Proliant group after they just released the ProLiant 5000. Perez also killed several high-end chipset designs. Again in favor of the less risky and inferior Intel designs.

CPQ could have owned the 8-way market 100% if its engineers were allowed to do the entire chipset instead of just the I/O bridge.

Things are getting a little better at the high-end segment thanks in part to Santeler. But Brad will keep all innovation out of the mainstream unless he is forced into it.
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