Re: Cringely's 2003 Predictions.

Quite a few of his predictions are pretty obvious. But some are intersting.

2. Dell may get bigger this year, but their best years are behind them. Their alligence to MS will prevent them from moving into new markets and their reputation for quality is fading fast.

5. Seemingly out there, but China has been doing MIP design internally for some time. They are begining to design and produce some cheap middle-low end chips for their own use, which are based on MIPs not Intel. What I see as interesting here is what happens in Korea, Taiwan and the other high tech assembly countries if China does go MIPs.

6. Intersting, and this one I doubt. Intel has a lot of pride and power. They will fight this with everything they have, while MS doesn't have the kind of leverage over Intel it once did. I expect to see Intel make some Linux moves this year as part of this contest.

Jay

So Intel has a solid history of supporting Linux.

In his recent book Lou Gerstner always spoke glowingly and highly of Intel's Andy Gove - a fierce but highly respected competitor who took out IBM/Motorla's PPC initiative by fair competitive means.

(Lou also mentioned Gates but from his first words about the man it is very clear he is trying to disguise his contempt
-- he mentioned how his 1st meeting with gates was withing his 1st days at IBM & how it had been clearly agreed that none of it would be discussed with the press but that within 2 days all the deatils of their talk, known only to the 2 of them, had appeared in print. He also said the meeting was pretty much one-way with Gates telling Gerstner how the OS was now MS's & for IBM to dump OS/2
-- Gerstner also refers to Scott McNealy as being engaging & entertaining
-- he also stated that IT had its own three-ring circus: McNealy, Ellison & Gates. He said that had he shot his mouth off in the same way that three did (often about non-existant technology) he would have had IBM's lawyers & board down his neck instantly)

Cheers Doug

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