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To: qinvestor who wrote (78305)	7/4/2008 4:50:33 PM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 197013

I think Paul is a great visionary and has some great ideas. Sometimes what you call a flop had a reason and was a sucess in the background. Wireless knoweldge....why? there was a reason. and it started under IMJ watch, not paul's. and the underlyng reason was a sucess... Now who do you think is behind the gobi and UMPC drive? If you already have this super ARM core chip, why not sell it preintegrated with 2g/3g and all the basics you want in a laptop and create a whole new market? You call that not visionary? you must have ben sleeping the last year. then throw in your own mfg display group for a super bright, super low power display? To paul's credit, in the last 2 years he has grown alot as a leader. Having known IMJ since 1983, I can say that IMJ had his learnging experiences along the way. I don't think Paul is far off from where IMJ was in 1985. I used to go to these leadership confernces from time to time, one had the author of "Good to Great". We were talking about what makes a good high tech CEO. He said that the first thing was to have great technical vision and undertanding of what is being built. then learn to run the company. A good CEO these days can hire good staff who have alot of experience. but you cannot hire someone who understands the entire business and how it runs. Look at Carly Fiorina. Fairly good manager, but never really did understand HP. Or Lucent, or MOT. Great managers, no idea what the company really does or needs. In the case of Lucent when I was back there alot, was that it was the prettiest marketing plan that got the go ahead and not the most technical and business savy. I guess if you want that, then we shoudl look for some slick lawyer or finance type CEO. but in the end, who will see the new markets and directions?