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[jhalada]

wbmw,

I would assume that in order for you to make the above statement, you would have to assume that there are zero platform differences between a system based on AMD or Intel, 3 years down the road. I couldn't disagree more.

How much differences do these things make for the end user? Consider PCs. There were some new featurs (MMX, DDR, SSE, RDRAM, integrated video, SSE-2, DDR-2, AMD64, integrated networking, disk controllers, wireless) and companies such as Intel and AMD always caught up with the other one in very short time, or some features started on high end models first, eventually migrated to the rest of the line. How much all these differences really made to the users, as far as being on bleeding edge and getting something 6 months to 1 year earlier than everyone else?

It is very likely that there will be a similar game of catch up in the server market as it was on desktop.

In the end, developing it all in house will be a huge advantage for Intel

Except when the management commits to something like RDRAM, and deny customers choice of PC-133 or DDR.

Sun would be idiotic in their hubris not to offer both Intel and AMD, to at least let their customers make the choice.

Are you saying that Dell's policy is idiotic?

Joe