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To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (170121)	8/26/2002 7:02:10 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The rats are streaming off the Itanic: Thanks very much to DARBES for this fascinating new data: http://biz.yahoo.com/t/i/intc.html biz.yahoo.com What is amazing is the breadth and pervasiveness of insider sales at inteL (these clowns are literally emerging from the woodwork) and at extremely low prices over the last two to three years of inteL's price history. Many of these guys (and gals) have to be very long term employees or have to have had very a long term association with intC. While at AMD...almost no sales for over a year. I have never before witnessed such an anomalous divergence in over thirty plus years in this market of stocks. Do note the amazing timing of Hector's purchase. What is significant about his purchase is the obligation he is under to not sell any for quite a while. I am sure that his package with the company includes generous stock options...but I also suspect that he does not expect the average price of AMD to stay anywhere near the prices that he paid, in my mind that is the only sane reason for his purchases. Because of the close scrutiny that "insider" are getting, especially now, he is "married" to those share. I suspect that the marriage will be a very happy one. Regards, DARBES

To: Robert Salasidis who wrote (170121)	8/26/2002 8:49:44 PM
From: Harold Engstrom	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Thank you everyone. I have been buying workstations with good SCSI cards and dual P4s for the past year - when the Xeon servers (thanks for the P3/4 clarification W) were more costly with less punch. I manage two companies - a pharmaceutical process automation company and a software company. The former needs good laptops and a few of dependable servers. The latter needs fast servers to run applications. We are migrating our code to .NET both because .NET is faster to develop in and because it is more comprehensive and because we will be able to take advantage of 64-bit processing power more quickly. Servers are the big issue - we want the most bang for our bucks and it is hard to discover what that is and where the cutting edge line is moving next. We typically buy Dell machines - workstations with RAID configurations that include 15K drives - for application servers. Would be willing to buy AMD-based machines, too. So far have found Dell to be the best price point and easiest site to buy from. But, it is hard to see what will be available NEXT week or month. (Also, have had issues with Dell service from time to time.) Our application servers deal with large numbers of transactions. What is the alternative to P4/Xeon when the code is written for a 2000 box and not transportable to a Unix box?