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To: Paul Engel who wrote (49005)	2/27/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, >>>I don't believe you have a full understanding of Craig Barrett's position in Intel and his past accomplishments.<<< You are proving a point that I didn't really want to or hope to hear. Craig Barrett could not have gotten to where he is in Intel without being a great engineer. However, I wanted some assurance that he would be a great business man a la Bill Gates, maybe. Some one that is as driven as Andy Grove, yet some one that can capitalize on the ideas of others and have a great vision on how to heavily leverage Intel's current and past successes. Being an investment banker to a lot of start up engineering companies and hoping to strike lightening is not exactly what I had in mind. The problem is seeing things from only an engineering perspective. The reason why, I believe, Microsoft is such a great success is because Bill Gates never finished college. The reason why Yahoo is such a big success (I don't think the founders finished graduate school) is that they shied away from an engineering solution. They opted to hire people rather than to use robots or "intelligent agents" to organize their content. Their use of people rather than computers is what distinquishes them from all the other search engines (see current issue of Fortune magazine). Be that as it may, you don't have to respond to this mostly rhetorical and lame post. I come to this thread primarily for the technical stuff from guys like you. Thanks, Mary