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To: Gottfried who wrote (6093)	5/16/2003 9:09:45 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25522

G, Thanks for the charts....here is Barrett explaing why Technology(and upgrades) really DO matter: Intel's Barrett fires back in IT relevance debate By Richard Wallace EE Times (05/15/03 06:47 p.m. EST) NEW YORK — Intel Corp has joined the rising chorus of technology companies debunking the “IT Doesn't Matter” debate touched off by Nicholas Carr's article in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. With its recently published 2002 annual report titled: “Does technology really matter?,” Intel executives offered investors a resounding but soft-spoken “Yes” in a lead-off letter to investors, but never mentioned Carr nor the offending article by name. In a briefing with reporters here Thursday (May 15) held prior to Intel's annual get-together with analysts, Intel CEO Craig Barrett took clear aim and put a finer point on its rebuttal. Referring to the current debate about IT's efficacy, and specifically to the HBR article which he said “best articulates the pseudo-populist theory,” Barrett said Carr's suggestion that “IT is a commodity infrastructure like roads, the internal combustion engine and electricity, absolutely misses the point. “All of those common infrastructures are infrastructural elements that allow you to make or move material; they don't allow you to put intellectual content or value into what you are doing." IT, Barrettt rejoined, "is the vehicle to put value in what you are doing. Therefore, if you want to have a high standard of living, if you want to have a progressive economy and if you want to be competitive around the world, you either have that infrastructure or you don't. If you don't have it the jobs will go somewhere else, which is why I have said you have the possibility of a jobless recovery [in the U.S., western Europe and Japan] if you don't have that IT infrastructure upgrade.” Barrett went on to say that “economies today are measured in terms of intellectual content that is embedded in the products they sell. IT is the vehicle by which you take information and data and turn it into intellect content. Either the U.S., western Europe and Japan invest and upgrade or they will see a somewhat devastating jobless recovery and the job will go to where the educated people are and where the tools and infrastructure are. "Intel can't design a next generation chip without IT infrastructure, Boeing can't design an airplane and GM can't design a new automobile without an advanced IT and communications infrastructure. And you can't index the human genome or tailor drugs on individual DNA makeup without IT infrastructure. To me it's a no-brainer. The only question is when do we start to invest?”