Ref- < will a Dell be prepared to handle customer support for very complex machines like 32 way SMPs with new CPU's, new chipsets, new OSs, new compilers, etc. The next thing that came to my mind is an overwhelming NO. Have to be IBM or HP, maybe Hitachi. Dell just doesn't have the experience in that kind of an environment, I don't think. Compaq does. >
If Dell cannot handle it, then obviously IBM/HP etc get a breather. So they may sell what I call the plain vanilla Intel chipset based system, but IBM/HP provide the customer support, consulting, and design and install the server/computer configuration. So IBM/ HP become the service and selling organizations, integrating the commodity building blocks bought from either Intel,Taiwan, or other white box manufacturer with the needed reliability and stability. That is a third option to the computer landscape I described.
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