Intel Corp (INTC)

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I did more than a hundred hours of time prepping execs for the MS - DOJ depositions. The attorneys know very little about the intricacies of the business and are in many cases guided by what they learned in the last deposition. Their assumptions, phrasing, and descriptions of what might be going on were laughably simplistic. Imagine talking about networking problems, to someone from a culture which has no electricity.

Much of the deposition work was defining a 'language' which the DOJ attorneys and the MS attorneys agreed on, before any of the 'facts' were even discussed.

In that case, and others I have been involved with, folks on both sides were eager for 'the truth to come out' before the process started. At the end, what resulted was a third version of events which clarified little, satisfied neither side, but made a lot of money for the legal teams. My guess is that if Dell and Intel executives testify, there will be two completely disconnected starting positions, and three when it is done - what Dell wanted to see, what Intel wanted to see, and whatever mangled version of events the legal teams agreed on.