Defence counsel Peter Forbes said Ashcroft did not suffer from a mental illness but had a "fundamental personality disorder".

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First, as my fellow Forbes contributor Peter Cohan points out, even if it is successful, the strategy will effectively make Dell a second-rate IBM.

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This kind of success has helped land two NEA venture capitalists, Richard Kramlich and Peter Morris , on Forbes' Midas List of tech's top venture investors.

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