To: Philip J. Davis who wrote (52070 ) 4/7/1998 2:00:00 PM From: Jock Hutchinson Read Replies (2) | Respond to
Phil; That's the point. Rocky is not to be trusted because he is short on IOM. I am not to be trusted because I am not short on IOM. You can get as angry as you want, but the fundamentals of this company are very poor, and the stock is headed further down. How many subscribers read Business Week? Boy that's a really compelling defense of KE. You have a less than one percent chance of losing your data. Phil I know, this might come as a surprise to someone such as yourself whose response to honest criticism is to send a person a single word obscenity as a reply in a private message over the SI board, but for people who really know what intellectual capital means, you really don't want to store thousands of hours of your best work on something that has a "less than one percent chance of failing" Contrast this to INTC's response when the very very slight flaw was brought to their attention in the initial Pentium. And let me tell you how my boorish infantile mind works. If a company has marketed one deeply flawed product, is being sued by its shareholders for fraud committed by its former CEO, and is about to lose very important elements of its niche as a result of other litigation, I am not going to be holding my breath for their next generation of product or their new line of products. Let me put it in terms you could understand. If you sold gas at your gas station that resulted in every one out of one hundred cars exploding, you would be out of business very quickly. Now as far as the fact that you have speculated your family's hard money on a piece of junk like IOM, I feel compassion for you, but the party is over, and the sooner you realize it, the better off you are. Your next move in life might be to start a self-help group for "last to knows" such as yourself. Lord knows there are a ton of people in AMZN, YHOO, AOL, and the like who are going to need your help. If you act quickly, you could start a company of therapists and take advantage of this exciting growth opportunity.
