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To: Windsock who wrote (76048)	4/1/2002 10:58:31 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Windsock and others: I build server grade systems for small businesses. I do not have a problem with AMD processors or the motherboards I put them into. Evidently these others do not know how to do quality systems integration. Some of the systems I put together have lasted 13 years giving little trouble over all that time. In that one, an AMD 386/20 performed all that time and the only reason it was replaced is after all that time running, the MFM hard drive finally gave up the ghost (it had a warranty of only 2 years). I have many Athlon based systems at various customers and to a one, they think that their systems are plenty fast and stable. Granted I used high quality components and spent the extra few bucks on those things that truly add to both performance and reliability. The greatest is adding a world class OS and MS Windows doesn't cut it. I have a customer whose applications developer is asking that I build turn key systems for them using Linux that his customers are demanding and quite a few of them want to use Athlons. I have noticed that sales of this "great" server platform, Itanium, are below even a niche product. I notice that development continues on other RISC cpus while they wait on a "great" implementation of IA-64. Even now, many customers of HP and Compaq do not want IA-64 based systems and are demanding a choice of something else or they will switch away to a vendor that will supply that other choice. If Hammer is ready, and many indications that it will be ready by the end of this year, many of these customers will demand its use (especially if they are using it in their home PCs with great effect) in their systems. Smart companies will supply that demand. If tier ones won't supply it, many up and comers will and they will turn into the next tier ones supplanting those intransigent ones. It has happened before (remember the x86 transition into servers was given the same reasons as to why it couldn't succeed) and it will happen again. Pete