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To: Paul Engel who wrote (59010)	5/21/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 1572209

Paul, Re: "ChipZilla gets to StrongARM ChimpZilla (AMD) once again !" I don't know if you've read the book, but the terminology above is something like what Geoffrey Moore uses in "The Gorilla Game." Intel, Microsoft and Cisco are three Gorillas he identifies, for example, in their respective fields. The term chimp is actually used for a strong, viable across key product lines competitor to the gorilla, that tries to wrest overall market control from the gorilla, but loses. His term for a company that is a no-threat copycat to a gorilla, and that relies solely on the gorilla for survival, is monkey. In fact, he uses AMD as an example of a monkey...monkey to the gorilla Intel. Honest! So, in Moore's terms, AMD would more correctly be termed MonkeyZilla, or ChipMonkey. Who would ChimpZilla have been? Maybe Motorola, or TI? IBM? Tony