Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:10:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 03/30/07 11:00, Paul E Condon wrote:
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> > I didn't follow your argument, but of course Microsoft is a
> > monopoly. There is no monopoly in the computer hardware manufacturing
> > business, and there isn't an oligopoly, and certainly not an
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> In June 2005, AMD sued Intel over anti-trust violations.
> http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2005Jun/gee20050629031144.htm
> claiming that Santa Clara-based Intel has violated 7
> different kinds of anti-trust laws spread across three
> continents involving at least 38 separate large companies,
> all in an attempt to marginalize AMD's ability to sell
> its products.
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> Former Compaq CEO Michael Capellas claims Intel "[held] a
> gun to his head" by witholding shipments of server chips,
> forcing Compaq to stop using AMD chips in its products.
> Gateway execs say Intel "beat them into guacamole" in
> pricing after Gateway announced a line of systems based on
> AMD's chips.
>
> Further, the suit alleges that Dell and Toshiba were paid
> large sums of money specifically to not do business with
> AMD. Sony was also coerced with "millions for exclusivity"
> to carry nothing but Intel-based products. AMD's share of
> Sony sales thereafter took a nosedive from 23% to zero,
> and has stayed there ever since.
>
Yes, the chip makers also beat up on the computer box guys. The box
guys don't have much opportunity to twist arms, do they? Beholden to
the chip makers, beholden to the retailers, beholden to M$ -- not a
happy condition.
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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