"Compaq trying to help smaller companies" -----------------------------------------
This is the most rediclous comment I have ever encountered. In PC market companies are trying to survive because of shrinking profit margins, No one is running a charitable / humanitarian bussiness with the axe right on top.
"Compaq be upset for Intel moving in their turf" ------------------------------------------------
I cannot believe this..., Go out on the street and ask any one trying to buy a PC a simple question!! "Given a choice.. will they buy a PC from INTEL or COMPAQ" If think I you got the message, the answer is loud and clear. Compaq is in no position to dictate any thing to Intel. They make the CPU, Compaq uses it, Intel dictates what they use. Its like MicroSoft few years ago when they came up with the Software 'CPU' called "windows 3.0". At that time you could have argued that companies like "Staker, WordPerfect, Novel, Borland"..you can go on, would get upset for MicroSoft moving on their turf. MicroSoft did JUST that, in Windows 3.1 they introduced MS-OFFICE, double disk, virus-scan. In Windows for Workgroup they introduced Networking, In Windows 95 they gave the user every thing plus an extra dimension of Garphical DataBase manuplation. MicroSoft within two years send a lot of companies from dominancy on their TURF to Bankruptcy. MicroSoft makes the Operating system, they know the internal interfaces, no one can make a product that uses Windows interface BETTER THAN THEM, and they have an extra POWER, when they announce a delay, all other vendors that use their platform have to silently sit and wait in their chair.
Today INTEL has the same position and DOMINANCE. They make the CPU's they have designed the internal details, no one can make a PC based on Intel CPU platform better than them and NO ONE CAN MAKE A CPU IN THE COMING 4 to 6 YEARS BETTER THAN THEM. I think its the right move for INTEL to make PC, MicroSoft did just that in Software. Ofcourse a lot of companies will go in RED, but we the consumer will profit from lower and better quality products.
Look at it this way INTEL in few years could be in a Position to put Bill Gates aside, but MicroSoft today or in few years will never have that drivers seat, they can only put away a lot of software companies, but a Hardware developer has a lot of firmware knowledge, he has both the qualities... |