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To: The Phoenix who wrote (27802)	8/20/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Gary, based on this post, you are purely speculating. don't take this the wrong way, please, but what you are saying about the situation is based on assumptions that are about 20% accurate. brian

To: The Phoenix who wrote (27802)	8/20/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Yep I agree, the point I was trying to make was that when a leader gets up and presents a case of "this is some vendors fault" - even if it is, it is very damaging to (their) credibility. The vendor of course should then admit to whatever they need to and LU did not, so two mistakes were made here. The problem with this is, that this is so obvious to me as an engineering middle manager. I expect a lot more from leadership than this (on both sides). In software we have one of these a month and I'm really fed up. The worst was a few years ago when the DMV blamed Tandem for some software screwup - Tandem is a hardware vendor - amazing....