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August 22, 1000
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James D. Corder
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Intel Gunning For Sun; CEO Sees Itanium Catching Up
At an Intel software developer industry forum today, Intel
CEO Craig Barrett commented that Sun was in fact not the
partner it once was, and is now the enemy. Pointing to a
wider distribution model, Barrett can't understand why Sun
continues it's 40% quarter on quarter growth with "proprietary
systems" when he sees it as clear that the market is
consolidating on Intel. The relationship between Sun and
Intel has soured in the last 6 months, as Sun has been slow
to port 64 bit Solaris to Intel's new Itanium architecture.
Sun's position has been that proprietary is all how you look
at it, the same could be said for forcing people into a closed
x86 marketplace where the only company making Itanium chips is
in fact Intel. It should be noted that the SPARC architecture
is in fact made by a consortium of companies, with both Cyprus
Semiconductor, Texas Intruments and Fujitsu actually doing
foundry fabrication.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2584406.html?tag=st.ne.1003.thed.ni
VIA On the Road Towards PC/Thin Client Hybrid
In yet another case of the thin client renaisannce, chip make
VIA Technologies announced that it would be building in features
of Thin Client machines into it's new low cost chipsets expected
to emerge in PC's costing from $199 to $499. Managability is usally
the strong suit of Internet Appliance which usually require no end
user maintanence, while regular PC's offer the promise of wide scale
applications availability. VIA hopes to concentrate on the low market,
where it sees Intel and AMD abandoning in the face of increased
pricing pressure and the lure of heavier duty, server microprocessors.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2586190.html?tag=st.ne.ron.lthd.ni
AltaVista ISP Withdraws from the UK Market, Cites Local Access Problems
Low cost internet service provider AltaVista UK announced plans
to dismantle most of the services it planned to offer, even after
250,000 reportedly signed up for flat fee internet services. This
comes after the UK's version of the PUCO forced the leading
British carrier, BT, to open the local loop or last mile to
competition and flat rate services. BT complied with the order,
but only to the letter of the law, offering the service only on
evening and weekends. Like many other countries is Europe, the UK
has no flat fee phone pricing which means that users pay per minute
for every call, whereas in the US most customers (housholds) pay
by the month for unlimited services. In addition, most ISP's in
the UK offer by the minute or hourly fees on top the phone charges,
so as a result, consumers are hesitant to spend as much time online
as citizens in other parts of the world with flat pricing. AltaVista
UK was promsing flat rate internet services with flat rate phone
call scheme, something which has been long promised and not delivered
due to BT's stranglehold monopoly on the market.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid%5F890000/890959.stm
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