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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tony Viola who wrote (30947)	6/10/1999 11:54:00 AM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Tony, Agreed, they did state that it could be revived quickly. All the same, the program wasn't completed. And unless AMAT is different than every other large corporation, time, energy, momentum, etc. are lost in stopping then restarting projects. The R&D people aren't just sitting on a shelf waiting for the restart; they're probably doing other things judged to be more important. There will be a bunch of office politics associated with getting the "best" people onto "my" pet project. It will take more than a press release to regain the R&D momentum, IMO. AMAT's "back-burner" was ill timed to say the least. Ian.