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To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (43106)6/7/2001 8:49:16 AM
From: niceguy767Respond to of 275872
 
Mark:

"Having worked with Servers
The price of a server within a few hundred $ is not very important. It's the data on them that is of great value. No major player is going to risk his neck with a million dollars worth of data to save a few bucks. The consumer market is an easy penetration because PCs are sold and bought by people who don't know $hit, just $."

That is the current INTC "spam" for sure...When INTC can no longer compete effectively on a price/performance basis in the consumer, mobile and low server space, what other response choice does INTC have...Sounds like a rehash of Paul's "stability" chant in reference to the P4...I'm not suggesting it's not a hard nut to crack for AMD, just suggesting that it is almost amusing to hear the ramping up of the "INTC stability" theme now that AMD has stepped into the ring with its superlative competitive offering!!!

What an INTC devolution has been witnessed over the 2 year period...Think about it...Two years ago, INTC had competition in only the low end consumer and, to some extent, in the mobile space...Today, INTC's product offerings across all MHz ranges in the PC and mobile space have been relegated to second best on a price/performance basis, and the way things appear to be evolving, AMD'll have established price/performance leadership products across all 4 spaces (consumer, mobile, server, workstation) by Y2001 yearend!!!



To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (43106)6/7/2001 11:20:16 AM
From: PetzRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
Mark, I doubt that the CPU is a significant reason for data loss in a server. Software, memory, expecially if > 1 GB, and disk/controller problems are much more significant. Did any previous Athlon chipsets fully support ECC?

This basically means that, except for the need for ECC, the reliability of a server is determined by the maker of it, not by which CPU is used.

Petz