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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (161786)	3/11/2002 12:45:55 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

bmw it is not exclusive to Germany. It was rather a follow-up comment about demand in Russia. Your sarcasm is misplaced and Paul, as german, may be deeply offended. :-)) Regards -Albert

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (161786)	3/11/2002 8:09:14 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: PC Magazine readers in Germany like the Athlon? I can't believe it. European IT decision makers have long been more open to new IT solutions than their American counterparts. Perhaps it has something to do with a near universal familiarity with multiple languages. About a dozen years ago, when 32 bit OS/2 couldn't get a foothold in the US, we were working with a number of models, and some of the European models ran under OS/2. I remember being quite surprised that they were using the IBM PC's only 32 bit OS, when most American developers were using 16-bit DOS programs with "Extended DOS" crutches. Perhaps it's because there is more employment security in most European economies. Where many American IT managers run their careers by the concept of "nobody ever got fired for buying XXX", european managers felt they could at least try a better, if less proven, technology. Linux may have been initially developed over here (by a then European foreign student) but it evolved into a serious operating systems solution in Europe. Sheer momentum and fear of the unknown on the part of American IT managers are Intel's greatest assets.