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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (140901)	12/8/2001 9:05:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586564

In all the systems we sold since these events, we have purchased NOT ONE WD drive. I'm sure others had similar experiences. AMD once had a worse reputation in its sector.....a sector that's a lot more visible. Not saying that WDC and AMD are the same situation but I remember I heard the same kind of comments re AMD chips that you are making about WDC's hard drives. Like AMD, WDC has been coming out with new product lines, consolidating its operations and product diversity, improving manufacturing standards and reducing operating costs. Unlike AMD, it has a fairly new mgmt team [new in the past two years] who are committed to the WDC turnaround....and are showing it by having bought shares....75k for the CFO, 20k for the CEO. Can't say that WDC's there yet but at $4 [now $5] per share, I am willing to take a chance. I too had written WDC off two years ago...so it was with surprise when I read that things were changing....and I thought I would give you guys the heads up in case you missed it. We'll see how it works out. ted