Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:46:04 -0700 |
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On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:02:27 PDT, Larry McVoy wrote:
> The problem with the old school approach of low/middle/high is that > everyone knows that they are shouldering far more than the material > costs plus a little profit when buying high end. They are paying for > the R&D. The market for those machines is very small and the volumes > never approach the level where the R&D is lost in the noise, that's a > significant fraction of the purchase price. That's OK as long as there > is no alternative but with all the household name companies like Google, > Amazon, Yahoo, etc demonstrating that racks of 1U boxes is a far better > answer the market for the big boxes is shrinking. Which is exactly what > Dell was saying. I dunno, maybe I'm completely confused but I see his > point. I don't see yours.
Hmm. Did you check your data with respect to Amazon, Yahoo, etc.? Not saying I know anything different, but I think you didn't check before you made that statement.
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