Computer Trade Show

Apr 13, 2005 23:55 GMT  ·  By

Certainly Murphy's Laws don't make any reference to an event like the one that took place two days ago within the Computer Trade Show, organized in Birmingham.

The event was sponsored among others, by Intel and MicroScope, but it's important to keep in mind the chip producer's name.

Everything went according to the plan, without any incidents, the participants exchanged cards and made some partnerships, and the organizers granted awards. And here is where the story becomes interesting. What do you do when you have to place on the same stage representatives of two rival companies and announce who is the winner and who has to settle with the champagne glass received at the entrance?

The organizers of the Computer Trade Show chose the easy way. They assigned the Intel representatives to present the awards, and the AMD representatives were invited to receive the prize...for the best CPU producer of the year.

Intel, who was master of ceremonies during the entire event, had to acknowledge the defeat, but didn't take the fair-play too far by "personally" presenting the award to AMD, its rival.

Intel representatives did their job and presented the awards until?the one for AMD, when they left the scene. Any other comments are useless.