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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (3446)	6/16/2002 6:02:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17639

hmmmm, no, I always assume that I don't have a very good tap into the conventional wisdom. Though everyone that I know who doesn't follow the market still thinks that everything is terribly underpriced and they want to buy. One of the things that I am seeing/hearing about in techland is what I would characterize as companies attacking themselves from the inside. People are getting pretty desperate because sales aren't happening so everyone is pointing their fingers at everyone else. Engineering is saying that sales is screwing up, marketing is saying that engineering didn't build the right product, sales says that marketing is doing enough promotion...and I am seeing a lot of churn...people getting fired. Companies have an itch and they are trying to scratch it, but it is a deep itch that they can't reach, cuz it is bigger than them. My buddy who was at SUNW for about 15 years hooked up to a start up doing SCM stuff as Dir of QA. He was there for two months and the fingerpointing got so ugly that on Friday he flipped them the bird and walked out. I am waiting for the RE prices to come down a bit. I may look into buying a little something up in SV.