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To: Scumbria who wrote (134975)	5/14/2001 6:28:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Actually, I heard they're "going to chuck their software base and reliability for the privledge of jumping on the" $10 64 bit bandwagon.

To: Scumbria who wrote (134975)	5/14/2001 6:40:05 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Scumbria: You are completely right in this. Businesses HATE changing software. They rather not upgrade, if they could. Throwing out their baby is unthinkable, unless their baby is dead or broken. They like to upgrade one thing at a time (less of a training and productivity hit that way). That way each app can be made to work and then they go to the next one. Doing it cold turkey 99 times out of 100 is an unmitigated disaster (read ticked off customers, vendors, and employees, and large losses). "Don't fix it, if its working" is still a watch word in business. You "Catch Hell, if you break it". Intel used those very reasons to fend off x86 challengers and now its completely ironic that the same arguments are used against them wrt IA-64 by x86-64. Evidently, they forgot recent history, and are doomed to repeat it on the losing side as per the famous quite true phrase. Pete