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To: elmatador who wrote (15330)	9/27/2001 6:01:30 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Motorola: Yes, I'm aware of "buy domestic" campaigns, both in recessions and in times of distress. But Motorola has more or less officially declared that they will go one step further from outsourcing, the step to "OEMming". OK strategy when products do not change very often, but not the best one when the market is the opposite, new features, new functions twice a year, and most important, large risk of bugs and recalls, delays, missing or old inventories, etc. Not least the ability to rapidly ramp up production. Personally I have expected some security, military contracts for Motorola, but from the background of trying to combine "military" and consumer business this also seems to be "tough". Compare TI who systematically has done the opposite during a long process, streamlined, spinning off the military functions. (and now Motorola officially declares further dependency on TI DSPs) Ilmarinen P.S. However, "security is a sensitive subject" (the need to both gather and share information but not misuse it, probably the Topic of this time in history) P.P.S. I once worked in a long distance switch with the right to eavesdrop to detect connections not properly disconnected, in the bad old relay days, a test of character.