Note to Readers on D'AmbrosioNote to Readers on D'Ambrosio

Judging by the Comments to my original story on Lou D'Ambrosio's resignation from Avaya, and from some email I've gotten, there seems to be a feeling that I was casting doubt on the stated explanation for the resignation. I certainly wasn't doing that.

Judging by the Comments to my original story on Lou D'Ambrosio's resignation from Avaya, and from some email I've gotten, there seems to be a feeling that I was casting doubt on the stated explanation for the resignation. I certainly wasn't doing that.As I wrote to one of my email correspondents, sometimes companies and their leaders get very specific when they make announcements like this (for example, when Steve Jobs announced that he had a rare but curable form of pancreatic cancer). So I felt it was important to make clear to the reader that "medical reasons" was the extent of the explanation that was given by Avaya/D'Ambrosio, that there wasn't more to it, anything more specific, that I was leaving out of my writeup.

I put quotes around "medical reasons" because that was the exact term that Avaya used in its release; again, I didn't want to use any term (e.g., "illness," "condition") that could have a shade of meaning other than what I knew for sure-and again, all I knew (and still know) was what was in the Avaya release.