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To: Rick Jones who wrote (70661)	9/1/1999 10:48:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1574098

Rick, <I believe that the Intel brand is VERY strong in business, especially in servers.> Servers? You seem to have a secondary infection, in addition to acute TS - incontinence of words. It's really a time to take your medication:)

To: Rick Jones who wrote (70661)	9/2/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1574098

Rick Jones, re:< I believe that the Intel brand is VERY strong in business, especially in servers. Just because Compaq offers K7 servers, it does not follow that customers will buy them. What's the compelling reason to change? Because Compaq says so? Price won't do it unless it's 30-50% less...> I believe it was someone at Intel who said that 95% of the servers that will be powering the Internet three years from now do not exist right now. My corollary is that 50% of the server buyers over the next three years never bought a server before! You wouldn't believe how many small businesses are buying applications servers or deciding to try e-commerce. To keep things in perspective w.r.t. business purchases of the Athlon, 2 million Athlons per quarter is only 6% of the market, and AMD is a long way from reaching even that production volume. AMD does not need ANY fortune 100 buyers to sell that many. Petz