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- From: Anders Bostrom <Anders.Bostrom@crclund.abb.se>
- Subject: Re: Refreshing Interview with Petro T. in April Amazing
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- tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie) wrote:
- >Barry Wilson (nmelen@nwlink.com) wrote:
- >: In article <4kj0qh$hd0@storm.cycor.ca>,
- >: Dennis Grant <dgrant@peinet.pe.ca> wrote:
- >: >If you haven't already, go out and pick up the April issue of Amazing
- >: >Computing. There is a good interview in it with Petro T. and Don Hicks,
- ..
- >
- >: >2) The rapid advances in processsor capability in the last 2 years are
- >: >driving everybody nuts. In the PC world, nobody can afford to build
- >: >inventory stock, because it goes obsolete before you can move it all. There's
- >: >so many players in the PC world that there's no margin to be made on
- >: >machines. And if you don't make PC's, the flood of cheap, fast Pentiums (like
- >: >the piles of excess-inventory P60's that are being dumped) are raping your
- >: >market. *Nobody* is making money.
- >: ^^^^^^
- >: Bill Gates is!
- >Very true. But then again he is Satan..
-
- No! - Bill Gates is NOT doing money in the sence that the article
- is discussing!
- The article is very interesting to read for those who try to understand
- the problems with manufacturing and selling hardware.
- Bill Gates is selling software and this is a totaly different thing!
-
- ha de
- /anders
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- Anders BostrĂ·m, ABB Corporate Research, Lund, Sweden
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