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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (139206)	7/15/2001 11:18:45 AM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>There is a history where when AMD was losing money and share prices plummeted, Jerry Sanders was very generously rewarded.< It is not always unethical for a CEO to be awarded generously while a company is experiencing major losses. A prime example of this is the CEO of Apollo prior to its acquisition by HP. This CEO was executing brilliantly during this time period while Apollo was swimming in losses. If it had not been for the guidance of this CEO, Apollo would have been in much worse shape. I do not always approve of Sanders actions, the worst of which was ignoring my advice to license the 6x86 core from Cyrix instead of proceeding with the K5, but even during this time period he executed the powerful moves of buying NexGen and hiring Dirk Meyers (followed by much of the former Alpha design team). Sure AMD was bleeding money like crazy during this time period, but the moves that they were making were the right moves.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (139206)	7/15/2001 11:31:02 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re You work harder than any PR person I know and you do a much better job than most. You are almost a 24/7 PR person. Sanders couldn't pay enough for what you do for him. The question I have is, why? the answer is easy. For the soldiers of the holy war money doesn't matter. Whether they are Saddam's guard, penguin lovers or Sanders' entourage

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (139206)	7/15/2001 3:27:09 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 186894

Just what is it about this person that seem to attract such zealous support from so many people? Remember Jim Jones? EP

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (139206)	7/15/2001 3:32:29 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Why are you so enamored of this guy? I'm not enamored of Sanders, and am disappointed by his recent market activity. But I am convinced that without him, the servers I configure at work would cost twice as much and run half as fast. And the PCs we all buy for work and home would be the same. As modern technological society becomes more interdependent, more and more opportunities arise for a particular function to become a functional and economic bottleneck. I view Intel's efforts to provide us with no alternative to slow, unreliable, and overpriced chips as essentially the same as the UAW/GM attempts in the 70's to force us to buy poor quality, overpriced, unreliable cars. Sanders, whatever his motivation may be, is presenting the same comparison to Intel as the Japanese auto makers did to UAW/GM when Lexus/Honda/etc. gave us something to compare to Cadillac/Ford/etc. All automobile manufacturers had to develop better products and learn to do a better job building them. Ultimately (in a small way) our way of life was improved. Intel was getting so big, so fat, so sloppy, and so arbitrarily arrogant (no alternative to RDRAM shall exist?) that it was vital that it be pressed back into a facing a market economy, rather than its previous circumstances. Intel was close to becoming the commissariat of CPUs - we were all at the point of having to queue up for hours to pay a high, non-negotiable price, to get a moldy processor of questionable value - and any OEM who didn't like it would see their computing resource supply cut off by Intel's politburo of distribution. Look at what's now available to the economy in terms of computing capability and cost, and honestly compare that to what would be out there in the absence of competition from AMD. Regards, Dan