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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62812)	8/19/1998 10:47:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, Those are all not commodities. They have been differentiated by marketing, flavour etc. ( I can recognise the difference between diet coke/pepsi 100%) A commodity is gasoline, rock salt, oil, coal, sulphur, potash fertilizer, etc. A commodity would be the 486 CPU at the end when there was no way to tell other than by opening the machine up once the machine was running. Benchmarks were the same for the same speed CPU etc. That was commoditisation and why Intel abandoned that market to produce proprietary designs. Now it looks like that same commoditisation cannot occur in the same manner, however there can be functional commoditisation as people care not that one board takes a socket CPU and the other takes a slotted CPU. They run at different speeds and have different prices, here they are, make your selection based on speed price etc. Who cares who made what part. I do not. Bill

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