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

To: tejek who wrote (122098)	8/10/2000 11:08:59 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1585461

Ted, sorry, a little too arcane description of Dell and their R&D, or lack of it. What I meant is that Dell, unlike IBM, HP and Compaq, relies almost completely on other companies, like Intel, Seagate, Samsung, Microsoft, etc. in doing all the R&D that goes into their products. The other 3 are capable of doing their own mobos, chipsets, software, etc., to design in features that differentiate. Things in the areas of built-in RAID control, Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters for SAN control, clustering hooks, RAS features, etc. Dell really is a system integrator and manufacturer, sheet metal bender to be harsh, whereas the others are system designers. Check Dell's R&D expenditures, as a function of revenues sometime. It's very telling. Tony