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To: kemble s. matter who wrote (155865)	4/3/2000 11:29:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Kemble - Sure they are working together - but on what? It is possible that DELL would do a non-Intel machine for the LINUX market, but it would be a very bad business decision IMO when their current products run LINUX just fine. A PowerPC based system could run LINUX but nothing else. A current Intel-based DELL box can run LINUX, SCO, NOVELL, Windows... all with the same manufacturing lines, parts supplies, engineering work. IBM has no chip technology in the markets DELL serves, and no intention to go there. IBM has no plans to challenge Intel in the IA space, and nothing on their roadmap which even moves in that direction. IBM does not even produce support chipsets for that market. The alternatives for DELL in the chip business are Intel and AMD, and in support chips it's pretty much Intel and VIA.