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To: Ali Chen who wrote (41635)	5/8/2000 12:55:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

Ali, are usually top-rank company managers. After a certain decision and internal commitment has been made, they are interested in getting their job done, and not where your competition is stumbling. I'm sorry you have such a poor opinion of successful businesspeople. With just a few exceptions, most of the folks I know who have reached the upper echelons of management are decent, thoughtful people interested in the overall success of the business. Clearly you haven't been involved in these types of meetings since you speak in generalities. Believe me, if the meetings were not worthwhile from both sides, they wouldn't take place. I'm beginning to see that you are one of the engineers of which I spoke earlier that is unable to see beyond the walls of your own engineering cubicle. Raise your head up Ali and look over the walls -- there's a much bigger world that affects the day-to-day success of businesses. For a company to be successful, all aspects of the business -- Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Support/Service, etc. -- must do their job well. None of them play any larger of lesser part in success than the others. First, it is not for sure that the SDRAM production will decrease. Hello? Do you think the industry is producing as much EDO memory as it once did? Pentium II's? 1 gigabyte hard drives? 8-track tape players? Horse-drawn carriages? Every product goes through a life cycle that eventually reduces it's production to zero as they hit the end of their life. Some cycles last longer, some shorter. And in some cases, the end of life production costs more because the production runs are smaller (fixed costs remain the same and material costs tend to increase due to purchases of smaller lot sizes). Dave