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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (25737)	11/10/1997 12:41:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1580072

Yousef, just like 7 months ago, there are NO AMD/Cyrix servers. My speculation is that when a buyer asks for a "server", he is willing to blow some serious bucks. If "server" companies added a $1,600 hammer, nobody would notice. There is no pressure to keep prices competitive. Most people don't know what a "server" is doing. They don't know that the server is actually just another PC with (or without) some additional features. Buying a server is like going to a shrink. It has a lot to do with how you feel about it. If your network crawled before, and now you "upgrade" to a "high performance" server, and the network still crawls, you feel good. You did all you could by blowing some $20,000. There are many PCs that act as servers, that use Pentium chips. There is no reason for not using AMD or Cyrix in those computers. Joe