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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (57205)5/4/1999 6:44:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) of 1573084
 
Tench - RE: "But in the
server and workstation market, customers are much more
price-insensitive. IT departments care much more about RAS
(reliability, availability, and serviceability) than a mere 10%
discount."

Doesn't either the workstation or server market also care about something like performance per cost factor? I remember reading an advertisement by Compaq that showed their Xeon system had a better factor than an HP and Sun system. Compaq made a big deal about it.
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