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To: Paul Engel who wrote (99528)	2/19/2000 6:19:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul - It is obviously in Intel's business interest to foster every market segment which might be a user of Intel technology, just as it is in MSFT's interest to do the same with hardware platforms which could support their software. MSFT has over the years had the opinion that the hardware vendors should do the "heavy lifting" - after all, they will get the benefit of access to the windows market. MIPS can't cut it? They're outta here. IBM doesn't want to pay the freight for PowerPC? Hit the bricks. Alpha NT having trouble in the market because of incompatibilities with applications, including MSFT products? Too bad... Intel has taken a much broader interest in fostering adoption of its products. They provide direct and indirect engineering assistance to companies who do not have the ability to build ground up products. They bring products to market to fill holes in the chain of things which might keep an OEM from producing products with more advanced technology. They develop motherboards and sometimes even complete systems, and provide them to the industry at very competitive rates to enable the broadest playing field. They provide advertising and marketing assistance to companies who use Intel products, even when those companies are also users of products which compete against Intel, or even when the companies themselves compete against Intel as is the case with IBM and CPQ. And of course, they have over time made a number of "seed" investments in various areas of technology, including, most recently, the support for a variety of companies in the Linux space. I see these moves as being pro-Intel, not anti-MSFT... after all, Intel is not getting into the OS or applications software business.