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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (170921)	9/10/2002 7:04:21 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 186894

Mary, re:<If the cost to validate AMD-based systems cost as much (give or take)as Intel based systems (let say it cost 1 X to validate Intel based-systems), then to validate both systems would it not cost closer to 2 X than 1 X? Anyhow it will be much more than 1 X> This is true, but corporations don't validate AMD systems or Intel systems, they pick a trusted OEM such as Dell or HPQ, pick some systems in the price ranges they want, and test those specific systems against their software baseline. If they had to validate against all Intel-based systems or all AMD systems, it would be prohibitively expensive because the the gazillion AMD chipsets and 3 gazillion Intel chipsets. The testing cost would be no different for an AMD-based system than an Intel-based system, but if the procurement folks hear biased comments from Gartner they may be reluctant to try the AMD-based system. Petz

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (170921)	9/13/2002 1:17:51 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

Mary, "Your social skills are a different matter." I wonder what might be so insulting in "retired investor". You have to face reality. Yes, a retired person is out of the circle. Period. Forget it. Move on. What was really insulting is your previous phrase: "How many hardware, software, firmware components are there that go inside or are attached to a PC that have to interface with the main processor? I don't know and you don't either." The problem is that I do precisely know how many. Not only how many, but I have to estimate the risk associated with each component, and evaluate acceptable %% of coverage, taking into account the time to market and available resources. There are priorities in capitalist markets. You should know this better. - A