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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (70613)	9/1/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Rick Jones	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

re:My view was that it was a net positive for Intel Charles, I agree IF it helps Intel sell more high-end processors sooner. I also think it will. Hopefully it doesn't backfire in the end because of platform fragmentation/compatibility issues... Actually, since this IS the AMD thread, any thoughts on how in the world AMD hopes to crack the corporate IT desktop and server market? F1000 companies won't even look at AMD-based desktops, and the top OEMs who support AMD, primarily IBM and CPQ are not offering K7 business desktop SKUs (PCxxx, Deskpro, OptiPlex, Vectra, etc.)anytime soon (CPQ got their peepees whacked by corporate IT several years ago when they tried to sell K5 desktops to spite Grove, and Dell has been laughing to the bank ever since). Corporate IT thought process is: "why would I want to worry about another platform, I just finished purging the Macs, I have a hard enough time absorbing technology "upgrades" as it is, my TCO is already too high and if I bring in yet another platform (K7), I've got a major, lengthy qual to perform, my support costs go up more, there's no tangible benefit, and I have no reason NOT to buy Intel as much as their technology churn irritates me". Finally, there really is perceived safety in Intel based PC's and servers in corporate IT. Kind of like the old "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" 10-30 years ago. Steep, steep mountain for AMD to climb IMO, and then there's servers... ...monopolistic, predatory, fraudulent, desperate, deceptive, illegal, dominating, house of cards, Ponzi scheming, incompatible, competition crushing, half-truth spreading, nonaccountable labor compensating, freedom and independence stifling, barely profitable, $84/shr#*$:($&&$)@...Intel Jeez, there goes that Ali's Tourette's again...sorry, gotta take more medication. Rick