Re: TI-H: Intel will continue to dominate (was: READ THIS ARTICLE)
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Re: TI-H: Intel will continue to dominate (was: READ THIS ARTICLE)
Unfortunately, due to the high cost of production, and the low number of
products that will be sold, the chips described are going to be VERY expensive.
For the first few months after introduction it will still be cheaper to build a
server with 4 500MHz xeon's than one with one of those chips, not to mention the
cost of software (I'm sure that Linux and others will be ported very quickly,
especially since IBM has started using Apache, but the people interested in
these servers want mission critical software (which linux can be) with mission
critical support (which will be VERY expensive if one chooses Linux, or VERY
expensive if one chooses another software package with its company's support)
Which are two reasons Intel will continue to dominate. Intel chose not to
license copper wiring for its newer chips because it could get the same
performance at a lower cost by working on other areas of this technology.
Despite all the boasting and posturing present on this list, Intel will still
dominate the business/consumer/small server computer processor. It's not a
matter of which chip performs better, but which chip will fit into the lowest
total cost of the system for the performance needed. The fact is that a
business will still choose the intel-windows combination because the total cost
of the system, including support, for a given performance level, is the lowest -
due to quantity sales of all the parts of the system involved, including the
cost of the network admins. I say small server market above because Intel does
not currently, nor will in the near future, make and succesfully sell processors
to compete with unix types, and will not until the commercially available and
supported software is ready to be made. NT is not an acceptable peice of
software, nor is Linux or any of its variants *yet*. Intel is not about to go
into the software business and create its own unix variant as many other
computer companies have (sun, silicon graphics, cray, etc)
I simply wanted to make a few points hoping that many of you will choose to take
this conversation elsewhere. The simple fact is that when looking at the total
cost of a system / performance / software availability ratio, wintel is the best
generic solution. You cannot dispute that. If apple could sell several million
PCs a day, instead of the thousands a day it is selling now, it could drop the
price like a rock, and that would change the balance. But that isn't going to
happen any time soon.
-Adam
Grant Stockly wrote:
>
> IBM Preps SOI-Based PowerPCs
> (06/15/99, 7:44 p.m. ET)
> By Anthony Cataldo
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