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To: DRBES who wrote (196338)	5/10/2006 8:28:13 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re:DRBES-uuuuhhhh...ibm is about, one more time, to come out with a buncha new Opteron stuff...like real soon...if true it would be stupid for Henri to say that ibm suks...even if it does Petz-So you think he should have embarrassed IBM? Or Apple? By bringing up the proprietary IBM chipset, he reinforced to them that it was a one-time decision. j3pflynn-In context, it made sense. He made the point that IBM had made the investment in X3 and needs to make their money back. They're sounding a little more interested in expanding Opteron now, maybe they've adequately recouped their costs. The problem is his response insults the interviewer's intellegence and the readers' intellegence by starting and ending the response with lies. "Absolutely not." Yeah, right. "It's good." Suuuuure it is. Good PR isn't about lying the most, it's about telling your side of the story the best. Misdirect, change the subject, concentrate on the positives...fine. The middle two sentences would have sounded supportive of IBM without claiming that three years after Opteron's launch only capturing a miniscule amount of IBM's server business is just fine and dandy with AMD.