Re: Portents of Itanium death

From: Fred Kleinsorge (my-last-name_at_stardotzko.dec.com)
Date: 06/10/03 

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 20:13:19 GMT

What a cop out.

Use whatever you want for a return address to mask yourself, put your name
in plain text in the body.

My impression is that either A) you are just one of the regulars stirring
the pot without attribution, or B) there are other reasons why if your name
were known - your opinion would be devalued.

Heck, at least I know that Bill is a real person - who is just here out of
some sense of spite that Alpha will eventually go away... or perhaps just a
little disgruntled. I know Andy's a Sun marketdroid. You can assume that I
have a bias towards HP and towards VMS considering I work for them - you can
discount *my* opinion based on that - which is your choice.

You have added nothing to the dialogue in terms of opinion that differs or
adds any nuance to several other VMS/HP/IA64 bashers.

"mist dragon" <mistdragon@zdnetonebox.com> wrote in message
news:7500353b.0306092202.4afd8559@posting.google.com...
> Paddy O'Brien <paddy.o'brien@tg.nsw.gov.au> wrote in message
news:<3EE510A4.2070405@tg.nsw.gov.au>...
> > Tsk, Tsk wrote:
> > > Fred Kleinsorge wrote:
> > >
> > >>Come on. The "analysts" here in c.o.v. seldom disclose their names,
or what
> > >>their financial interest is in spreading FUD.
> > >
> > >
> > > I would say that the majority of the pundits here have real names.
Those
> > > without fake names are in the minority.
> >
> > This does not make sense.
> >
> > I would assume that everyone here has a real name whether they use it or
> > not.
> >
> > I disagree with both writers in that I think the majority on this
> > newsgroup/mailing list -- "pundits" or "analysts" or whatever -- do use
> > their real names, even to the extent of accepting abuse. There are only
> > a handful of *real* contributors here who do not use their real names
> > and "John Smith" has explained his own reasons and those might apply to
> > others in this handful. Apart from this handful, the other posters who
> > use the cloak of anonimity are trolls.
> >
>
> Now, how do you define a real name ? If you write down something else
> than John Smith, picking it from telephony directory and put it to
> hotmail or set up a website for it, does it mean its a real name ? Or
> if you steal an address from 'net ? How does one prove its correct one
> ?
>
> In my view the anyonymous name is to protect its owner from spam. Not
> that I would not trust you guys/gals :) But robots scan the usenet and
> find new spam targets and less you give up your real name and address,
> the less spam you have. As simple as that.
>
> Other reasons may be organizational, but as for me, I am not employeed
> by CPU manufacturers or vendors. I am not an analyst or venture
> capitalist. I have no monetaory or other benefits of nailing down
> Itanium, VMS, Athlon 64/Opteron etc. I hold no stakes or shares on
> AMD, Intel or other computer companies nor do I work for one. As
> usual, you have to take my word on this :)
>
> My motives are to observe the market as I have in the past 25 years in
> this business and point out things and see other people's opinions on
> these and expand my visions. Would I reveal myself, I would be
> targeted on all the nasty downsides of communication, spam and
> personal attacks, so I would like to remain in my insignificant mist
> :)
>
> Mist

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