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


To: Paul Engel who wrote (93203)2/15/2000 11:25:00 AM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1571637
 
<Re: "You are talking about displacing Sun - the dominant, battle hardened player in the industry. "

It will happen.

Maybe not completely.

Maybe not quickly.

But it will happen.>

OK, want to make some estimates on how many units Itanium will ship in 2000, 2001, 2002?

<If it didn't happen, AMD would have very little prospects of their own in the enterprise arena.>

Did you see the link about Gateway selling Athlons in enterprise space in Australia? Do you want to rethink the above statement?

I would say we would have Athlon based corporate desktops in the US from at least one big name in Q2 (definitely no later than Q3).