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

To: Steve Porter who wrote (108596)	4/30/2000 7:05:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1571889

Steve, Arguments can be made both ways. Inflation has been countered by inflation in the numbers of pieces sold and more so since the number soldhas far more than out paced inflation. We have had an average increase in units sold of 20-25% since 1984. For your statementto be true we need a similar rate of inflation. Drink that with your $15 can of diet coke.So they have trod a middle ground that is true. both exploitive as in more price increases than inflation but not as bad as solaris....what an example of monopoly tactics...get 'em over the barrel and pull down their pants. No the real crime was the denial of turf to others and the coerced OS licences as well as the huge difrerences between what you and I paid for the OS and what IBM paid. Would you believe under $10 until the last few years....there the real inflation. Look at the rates the IBM/CPQ etc paid for the OS this year compared with 10 years ago.....ouch. All the small screwdriver shops had to buy retail OS as there were shut out of the OM deals and all the OEM deals h differenc prices for the same stuff. Can of worms comes to mind as the DOJ gets into that. Bill