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

To: tejek who wrote (122520)	8/20/2000 10:32:34 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583848

Ted blurted out this: "As a techie geek from Kanada <g>, you may not know the business term, rainmaker. A rainmaker is someone who has the ability to go out and talk up the firm's products and bring in new customers and investors.....and make money/rain. Just as individuals are rainmakers so are firms." I have heard of the term rainmaker before.. but in a political sense.. but yea.. I got the idea. As for Kanada.. I wasnt sure whether you were trying to spell "Canada" the country or "Kanata" , which is a suberb of Ottawa (which I dont live in) ;) I think the mood of the hardware sites generally is that its a great move for both companies since they wont be comitting intercecine warfare against each other and will instead co-operate against the common enemy - Intel. Plus.. some on the hardware sites seem to really like Transmeta's technology.. and some think it could be a benefit to AMD to have access to it - a la the Motorola co-operation. Heres what 1 techie friend of mine said when he heard this news: "it does sound interesting doesn't it?..can't you see it..a transmeta x86-64 chip running the same software translation as the sledgehammer? the 2 of em could literally pull the carpet out of Intel's mobile market. between the two of them, they could pull the carpet out from under intel's cpu market. period." Ok.. so maybe thats one opinion.. and perhaps more optimistic then most.. but this fella isnt one for large doses of optimism like Niceguy is <g> nor does he particularly favour 1 CPU company over another... He just thinks its one of the better announcments he's heard. As for the Sun thing.. I guess that made you happy when Sun announced they were going to port Solaris to x86-64 :)