Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff
brand fact hardware selling using
Certainly, the fact that you need to be using brand new hardware is a selling disadvantage out the door.
almost business efficient margin money narrow order selling
Business desktops are a narrow, narrow margin business; they are almost a commodity. You have to be very efficient in order to make money selling desktops.
investment larger lots pay sell size systems
Obviously, they have to sell lots of systems of this size to pay back what has to be a considerably larger R&D investment than they have even with Galaxy.
boxes buying coming era good problems run selling solving
Dell has had a really good run selling essentially cookie-cutter rack-mount servers. But the era of solving problems by just buying more boxes is coming to a close.
apple bigger higher liked notebook percentage power sell
This is a bigger story for Apple than for Intel. Apple liked Intel's roadmap better than that of Power PC, and the idea is that they will now sell a higher percentage of notebook computers.
changing direction general number people scope small struggling
I see this as fine-tuning more than changing direction. Obviously, they're struggling financially, but in general this is a small number of people in the scope of things at Sun.
comparable performance
They are all comparable in performance for high-end, non-X86 architectures.
adopt core either slower stick
Enterprises must either adopt multi core or stick with slower chips.
cell certainly model relatively
Programming Cell is relatively hard. Certainly a higher-level, more abstracted model makes programming a lot easier.
companies content happy jobs leave people reasonably
People do not typically leave companies if they are deliriously happy with their roles, but sometimes even people who are reasonably content with their jobs find better opportunities that come along.
favor game late microsoft overcome
Microsoft is going to be very late to the game and will need to overcome a presumption that it will favor Windows.
attempts company few key market microsoft player position success
Microsoft has made a few unsuccessful attempts to become a key player in the supercomputer market but the company could be in a better position for success this time.
built business expertise leverage microsoft party software third wants
Microsoft has built its business on working with third party software vendors and wants to leverage that expertise to the supercomputing arena.
intel likes messages michael option send
Michael Dell likes to periodically send messages to Intel that Dell does have the option of introducing AMD.