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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mike M2 who wrote (27980)	5/7/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Mike, The good news for the tech cos is that the most technologically savvy people are not too bright when it comes to investing. And, even better, they think they are. <G> Just hark back to Steve's notes on the Atmel thread (the one that allowed me to post <G>). He kept on telling everyone that Atmel's bright future was certain because the injunears who buy products love Atmel's. I remember saying that the engineers are not always the decision-makers and that when the customers are also competitors, that is not a good thing. But I think he was absolutely right about the tech folks and that they were buying Atmel at the top. And the ones who were working for many of the fallen tech cos. were accepting options in lieu of cash at the top. MB