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

To: Road Walker who wrote (253223)	9/30/2005 12:11:25 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1570818

"I once worked for a company where an employee got high praise from the president for fishing a price list out of a competitors garbage" I once worked for a company that got bought out by their major competitor in a stock swap deal and they let literally everybody go and closed it up. One of the other competitors was all over that, quickly snapping up a core engineering group and setting up a branch office. At one of the first big meetings we had, their marketing guys released, with a big fanfare their specs. for the next generation product. As we looked over it, it seemed awful familiar. We realized why when there was one place where "search and replace" missed a reference to a model number. The truly sad thing was they had stolen the specs. for what was the most expensive and worst belly flop of a product that my original company had produced. They flushed a huge chunk of cash into it, it was extremely late and proved to be a nightmare in the field. For all 20 units that actually made it there. In fact, it was a contributing factor to my original company's downfall. I'll admit that the specs. were a marketing man's dream, it had unheard of flexibility and configurability. The problem is that it was unheard of because it just couldn't be engineered to be reliable and the available operating systems had to have games played with them to accept the hardware. Which also contributed to its reliability short falls. I don't know what ever happened to the guys responsible for this, though. Everybody I asked just got quiet when I asked.